Causes of Elder Abuse: Caregiver Stress Versus Problem Relatives

Overview

Journal Am J Orthopsychiatry

Publisher American Psychological Association

Specialties Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 1989 Apr 1

PMID 2712152

Citations 12

Authors

K Pillemer

D Finkelhor

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Abstract

Elderly abuse victims and a nonabused control group were compared to test the widely accepted proposition that such abuse results from the burden and stress placed on those caring for infirm and dependent elderly people. The study found substantially more support for the idea that abuse is associated with personality problems of the caregiver.

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