The hidden health menace of elder abuse. Physicians can help patients surmount intimate partner violence

Postgrad Med. 2003 Apr;113(4):21-4, 30. doi: 10.3810/pgm.2003.04.1403.

Abstract

As many as 2 million elderly persons in the United States experience physical, psychologic, or sexual abuse each year. Nationally spouses or intimate partners commit between 13% and 50% of elder abuse.1 Physicians can be instrumental in preventing and intervening in intimate partner violence in their elderly patients.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Clinical Competence*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Screening
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care
  • Risk Factors
  • Sexual Partners / psychology*
  • Spouse Abuse / diagnosis*
  • Spouse Abuse / prevention & control*
  • Spouse Abuse / statistics & numerical data
  • United States / epidemiology