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Abstract
Emotional, nutritional, financial, or physical maltreatment, exploitation, or abandonment of the older person generally by family members or by institutional personnel.
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Synonyms
24 entry terms
- Aged Abuse
- Elderly Abuse
- Senior Abuse
- Abuse, Aged
- Abuse, Elder
- Abuse, Elderly
- Abuse, Senior
- Elderly Abuses
- Senior Abuses
- Abuse Experiences, Elder
- Elder Abuse Experiences
- Elder Maltreatment
- Elder Mistreatment
- Elder Neglect
- Experience of Elder Abuse
- Senior Neglect
- Abuse Experience, Elder
- Elder Abuse Experience
- Experience, Elder Abuse
- Maltreatment, Elder
- Mistreatment, Elder
- Neglect, Elder
- Neglect, Senior
- Senior Neglects
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14 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, diagnosis, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, mortality, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, statistics & numerical data, therapy, trends.
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- Aged (1966-1983)
- Crime (1968-1983)
- Violence (1968-1983)
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WA 356
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Elder Abuse. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004552. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004552
- Elder Abuse. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_abuse
- Elder Abuse. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427883