Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia
Vol. 3, No. 1

Elderly Mistreatment: Risk Factors and Therapy

Madina, Ummi Ulfah (Unknown)
Dwimartutie, Noto (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2016

Abstract

Elderly mistreatment is a preventable serious health problem that lowering older adults quality of life. Elderly mistreatment can be done by the caregiver or even the patient himself, regardless the intention. Meanwhile, defining an elderly mistreatment is still a challenge due to varied risk factors and cultural differences in each country. Those conditions result in challenges in identifying and managing elderly mistreatment. This review will also discuss screening modalities to identify elderly who is at risk or currently abused to prevent and manage elderly mistreatment properly.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

publication:jpdi

Publisher

Subject

Medicine & Pharmacology

Description

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia contains the publication of scientific papers that can fulfill the purpose of publishing this journal, which is to disseminate original articles, case reports, evidence-based case reports, and literature reviews in the field of internal medicine for internal medicine ...