The relationship between dementia and elder abuse

Abstract

One cannot imagine that an individual with dementia could be abused by their carers who, more often than not, are close family members. Yet sufferers stand a high chance of falling victim to abuse because of their vulnerability. In this next article, Colm Owens and Claudia Cooper explain how they went about finding out from family carers of dementia sufferers how far abuse can go in order to understand what drives an individual to act in such a way.

Citation

Owens, C. and Cooper, C. (2010), "The relationship between dementia and elder abuse", Working with Older People, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 19-21. https://doi.org/10.5042/wwop.2010.0074