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Arabic-speaking Older Immigrants’ Views on Risk Factors for Elder Abuse
Research on Ageing and Social Policy, 2023 Elder abuse is a central concern in Canada’s aging population. Our qualitative findings from a mixed methods study on risk factors for elder abuse in Toronto Arabic-speaking immigrant communities identified key risk factors that make these older adults ...
Sepali Guruge +3 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Globally, elder abuse is a common form of violence against the elderly. This study examines the association of disability and functional ability measures with elder abuse in India.
T. Sathya, Ramaswamy Premkumar
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Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Seniors with Psychiatric Morbidity - Example from Central Moravia, Czech Republic [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2012 Background: Elder abuse and neglect (EAN) comprises emotional, financial, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect by other individuals, and self-neglect. Elder abuse and neglect in seniors with psychiatric morbidity was not monitored in the Czech Republic at
Jan Luzny, Lubica Jurickova
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Domestic elder abuse and associated factors in elderly women in Tehran, Iran [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2018 OBJECTIVES Elderly people are often abused in many ways, with serious and lasting consequences. Elder abuse remains one of the most hidden forms of family conflict, and its frequency is anticipated to be rising in many countries that are rapidly ...
Negar Piri +3 more
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Elder abuse in the COVID-19 era based on calls to the National Center on Elder Abuse resource line
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated circumstances that place older adults at higher risk for abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Identifying characteristics of elder abuse during COVID-19 is critically important.
Gali H. Weissberger +8 more
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Prevalence of elder abuse and victim-related risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in China
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background With the accelerated aging of the Chinese population, elder abuse has become a serious social problem. As COVID-19 has had a very large impact on economic development and lifestyle in China, it has also affected elder abuse.
Pengcheng Du, Yu Chen
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Domestic elder abuse in Yazd, Iran: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Health Promotion Perspectives, 2016 Background: Social changes due to urbanism, acculturation, and fading of values have led to some challenges in family relationships, including domestic elder abuse. This study was conducted to determine elder abuse status in Yazd, Iran.
Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
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Prevalence patterns and associated factors of elder abuse in an urban slum of eastern India
BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background The prevalence of elder abuse in various parts of the world has been reported between 2.2 and 90.4%. According to some studies conducted in India, elder abuse prevalence ranges between 9.6 to 61.7%.
Pradnya Chandanshive +3 more
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Metastatic niche shaped by host factors influences disseminated cancer cell fate
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Metastasis is shaped not only by cancer cells but also by the environments they encounter. This review explores how factors such as aging, diet, the microbiome, lifestyle, and environmental exposures remodel organ‐specific niches in the lung, liver, bone, and brain, influencing where metastatic cells survive, remain dormant, or grow, and ultimately ...
Gwennan Delyth Ward +2 more
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