Citation

Pérez-Rojo G, Izal M, Montorio I, Penhale B. Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 2009; 49(1): 17-21.

Affiliation

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Facultad de Psicología, Campus Universitario de Cantoblanco, Carretera de Colmenar Viejo, Km. 15,300, 28049 Madrid, Spain. gema.perez@uam.es

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.archger.2008.04.005

PMID

18534697

Abstract

We analyzed the discriminative capacity of several risk factors for elder abuse and neglect, in order to identify what characteristics distinguish between caregivers with a high or low risk of abuse and neglect. Forty-five caregivers of relatives with dementia participated. The combination of caregiving impact, frequency of aggressive behaviors by care-recipients, stress related to provocative and aggressive behaviors, the frequency of provocative behaviors, interpersonal burden, autoefficiency expectations, quantity of help received and depression classify correctly as risk factors in 90.9% of the cases. This study permits us to identify what characteristics distinguish between caregivers with a high or low risk of abuse and neglect and caregivers.

Language: en