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Elder Abuse and Neglect in Canada: The Glass is Still Half Full

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2011

Lynn McDonald
Lynn McDonald*
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Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto
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*Correspondence and requests for offprints should be sent to / La correspondance et les demandes de tirés-à-part doivent être adressées à: Lynn McDonald, Ph.D. Professor and Director Faculty of Social Work Institute for Life Course and Aging University of Toronto 222 College Street Suite 106 Toronto ON M5T 3J1 (lynn.mcdonald@utoronto.ca)
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Abstract

This article reviews developments in the field of elder abuse and neglect since the publication of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Canada (1991). The arguments made here are twofold: first, we have no idea of the size and nature of the problem of abuse and neglect in the community or in institutions; second, we do not know how to solve these problems or their attendant issues that have been masked by rhetoric and the recycling of information for the past 20 years. It is time to move forward from the “awareness phase”. What we must tackle in the future is as obvious now as 20 years ago. Our knowledge is incomplete (i.e., our glass remains half full) because we lack the type of investigations we most urgently need: prevalence studies in the community and institutions, serious theory development, and random clinical trials to test our interventions both socially and legally.

Résumé

Cet article examine les développements dans le domaine de la maltraitance et de la négligence des aînés depuis la publication de Elder Abuse and Neglect in Canada (Butterworths, 1991). Les arguments présentés ici sont de deux ordres : d’abord, nous n’avons aucune idée de la taille ou de la nature du problèmes de la violence et de la négligence dans la communauté ou dans les institutions et, d’autre part, nous ne savons pas comment résoudre ces problèmes ou leurs questions connexes qui ont été masqués par la rhétorique et le recyclage de l’information pendant les 20 dernières années. C’est le temps d’avancer au-delà de la « phase de sensibilisation ». Ce à quoi nous devons nous attaquer à l’avenir est aussi évident aujourd’hui qu’il ne l’était il y a 20 ans. Notre connaissance est incomplète parce qu’il nous manque le type d’enquêtes dont le besoin se fait le plus urgent: les études de prévalence dans la communauté et les institutions, un développement théoriquement solide, et des essais cliniques randomisé pour tester à la fois nos interventions socialement et juridiquement.

Keywords

maltraitance des aînésnégligencemauvais traitementmaltraitance domestiquemaltraitance institutionnelleelder abuseneglectmistreatmentdomestic abuseinstitutional abuse
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 437 - 465
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2011

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