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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Financial abuse"”.
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Archival offender records analysis: examining patient abuses in Tennessee
… offenders and the dependent variable (types of abuse) in Tennessee from 2006 to 2015. A total of 227 practitioners who were either licensed, certified, or trained in their perspective professional practice or job level, convicted of abuse, physical/emotional abuse and financial abuse, were …
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Psychological empowerment of female victims of spousal abuse through philophonetics
Spousal abuse is a public health concern and is common in all races and ethnicities. It may take on various forms such as; physical beating, verbal/ emotional/ psychological abuse, sexual abuse, or financial abuse. Women often remain in abusive relationships for financial security, fear of further …
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If walls could talk: The lived experience of witnessing verbal abuse toward residents in long-term care facilities.
… time in a nursing home. Most research addressing abuse in long-term care (LTC) facilities focus on sexual abuse, physical abuse and financial abuse or neglect. Few researchers have studied verbal abuse, a phenomenon not easily measured or quantified. This topic is significant to nursing as it …
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Development of Aftercare Guidelines to Support and Prevent Relapse of Rehabiltated Substance Abusers in Madibeng Sub-District, North West Province, South Africa
Background Substance abuse is a challenge that prevails across all ages globally today. Different drugs like cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine, methamphetamine, morphine, and alcohol are abused. Research studies have indicated an increase in relapse of rehabilitated substance abusers. Some studies …
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Perceptions of elder abuse among Australian elderly individuals and general practitioners
Research available on elder abuse is limited. There continues to be a lack of uniformity in how to define and identify the problem, as well as how to intervene. One group which continues to be excluded from the process of gaining knowledge on the issue of elder abuse is the elderly themselves. As …
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Old age pension as a means of poverty alleviation in Lesotho
… no policies that protect the elderly people from financial abuse, socially and their livelihood in general and the elderly are not included in the decision making of their families, communities and the government policies.
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of forced marriage for diasporic south Asian women who have left
… of FM can include physical, emotional, and financial abuse, disruption to education, damage to career opportunities, enforced pregnancy, rape, abortion, abduction, mutilation, and murder. The UK is supplementing the criminalization of FM with interagency protocols to protect women involving …
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An investigation into how elderly persons perceive elder abuse.
… in the aging populations has brought elder abuse into the public focus. Elder abuse is a complex, multi-faceted health, social, criminal justice, international public health and human rights issue. The widely divergent and varying definitions is a controversial problem to understanding elder …
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Elder abuse in South Africa: measurement, prevalence and risk
Abuse towards older people is a global public health and human rights concern and considered a hidden pandemic due to underreporting. It has been estimated that 1 in 6 people aged 60 and older have experienced abuse at some point, with World Health Organization estimating that only 4% of cases are …