Elder Abuse Term Paper

According to this study which focuses on the theories and measures of elder abuse. Abolfathi, Hamid, and Ibrahim (2013) focus on two important aspects of elder abuse. The first aspect was about theorizing the causes of senior mistreatment in terms of psychological, sociological, and biological theories. Based on the reviewed theories, it was found that elder abuse might occur because of the senior adults’ dependency in potential perpetrators, such as family, friends, and caregivers
The second section of this article was about the measures and the instrument that use to assessment elder abuse. The authors discuss the most commonly used measures of elder abuse such as Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), and Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS). From reviewing of the strengths and weaknesses of existing measurement instruments, the authors report that although there is some instruments have been developed to identify the victims of abuse, there is still the need to develop more measurements and unlimited instruments since the growth of this issue is remarkable.
For in stance, estimating and assessing prevalence and correlation of emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse of aging adult in a randomly selected national sample in the United States were the purpose and the method that Acierno, Hernandez, and Amstadter (2010) used to address elder abuse. In this study, based on a randomly selected national sample, the authors assess and evaluate the frequency of physical, sexual, psychological, financial mistreatment and neglect of senior adults. They used different methods in order to collect their data, such as computer-assisted, telephone interviewing. Based in analyzing data, it was found that 11.45% of respondents state that a lot of abused happened by a family member for financial, emotional, sexual, and neglect