Elder abuse: a conceptual analysis.
Renata Clemente Dos Santos-Rodrigues, Gleicy Karine Nascimento de Araújo-Monteiro, Ana Márcia Nóbrega Dantas and 3 others
PMID 38055495WHAT IT FOUND
Elder abuse was described as psychological, physical, financial, sexual, neglect or abandonment, with listed risk factors and harms, but no intervention or patient outcome was tested.
Key findings
01The analysis used 40 documents, and 11 were classified as level of evidence IV.
02Antecedents were grouped into nine individual, eight relational, one community and six social factors.
03Consequents were grouped into 12 individual, three relational, two community and four social outcomes.
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What it does not show
The paper analysed published documents, not patients, so it does not test whether assessment or intervention helps older adults. The authors did not report a patient outcome, randomisation, blinding or follow-up because the design was a concept analysis. The authors list incomplete model case construction and additional cases as a limitation. The work is described as an initial step toward building and validating a screening scale, not as a validated scale.
Declared interests
The paper reports support from CAPES, Financing Code 001, and from PROPESQ/PRPG/UFPB 03/2020 under project code PVG13127-2020. The supplied text does not include a separate conflict-of-interest declaration.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that elder abuse screening, nurse assessment or any intervention improves outcomes. It is a concept analysis of 40 documents and did not involve patients or test an effect.