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Indicators of Elder Mistreatment: Correlates among Veterans Receiving Care in the Veterans Health Administration

Among community-dwelling adults ages 65 and older, approximately 11% have experienced elder mistreatment (EM), including physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation. EM research typically focuses on this age group; however, Veterans receiving Veterans Health Administratio...

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Autores principales: Jedele, Jenefer, Griffin, Cameron, Weitlauf, Julie
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969627/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3195
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description Among community-dwelling adults ages 65 and older, approximately 11% have experienced elder mistreatment (EM), including physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation. EM research typically focuses on this age group; however, Veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) care have increased earlier morbidity, which may accelerate the impacts of EM. Using a cohort of all VHA Veterans 50 years and older with VHA use in 2018-2020, we examined correlates of EM. ICD-10 codes from clinical encounters identified Veterans with indications of EM (n=4,427). A 10% sample of Veterans without indications of EM was selected for comparison (n=530,535). Logistic regression compared EM+ Veterans to the comparison sample and assessed overall demographic and clinical differences as well as differences by age, i.e. 50-64 versus 65 and older. Overall, female gender (OR=5.3, 95% CI=4.3-6.5), non-white race/ethnicity (OR=1.7, CI=1.5-1.9), dementia (OR=3.0, CI=2.6-3.5), PTSD (OR=2.0, CI=1.6-2.5), anxiety (OR=1.3, CI=1.0-1.5), military service connected disability status (OR=1.3, CI=1.1-1.5), and higher Elixhauser medical morbidity scores (OR=1.1, CI=1.1-1.1) were associated with EM. Prior year ER visits (OR=28.0, CI=23.6-33.4), inpatient stays (OR=14.0, CI=11.5-17.0), and mental health visits (OR=26.1, CI=22.2-30.6) also predicted EM+ status. Forty-six percent of VHA Veterans with indicators of EM were aged 50-64. For these Veterans, female gender, PTSD, service connection, and mental health visits were associated with increased risk of EM compared to Veterans 65+. Findings highlight clinical correlates of EMs among Veterans in VHA care. Increased awareness of EM risk factors is warranted and may inform VHA efforts for EM prevention, detection and intervention.
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spelling pubmed-89696272022-04-01 Indicators of Elder Mistreatment: Correlates among Veterans Receiving Care in the Veterans Health Administration Jedele, Jenefer Griffin, Cameron Weitlauf, Julie Innov Aging Abstracts Among community-dwelling adults ages 65 and older, approximately 11% have experienced elder mistreatment (EM), including physical, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation. EM research typically focuses on this age group; however, Veterans receiving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) care have increased earlier morbidity, which may accelerate the impacts of EM. Using a cohort of all VHA Veterans 50 years and older with VHA use in 2018-2020, we examined correlates of EM. ICD-10 codes from clinical encounters identified Veterans with indications of EM (n=4,427). A 10% sample of Veterans without indications of EM was selected for comparison (n=530,535). Logistic regression compared EM+ Veterans to the comparison sample and assessed overall demographic and clinical differences as well as differences by age, i.e. 50-64 versus 65 and older. Overall, female gender (OR=5.3, 95% CI=4.3-6.5), non-white race/ethnicity (OR=1.7, CI=1.5-1.9), dementia (OR=3.0, CI=2.6-3.5), PTSD (OR=2.0, CI=1.6-2.5), anxiety (OR=1.3, CI=1.0-1.5), military service connected disability status (OR=1.3, CI=1.1-1.5), and higher Elixhauser medical morbidity scores (OR=1.1, CI=1.1-1.1) were associated with EM. Prior year ER visits (OR=28.0, CI=23.6-33.4), inpatient stays (OR=14.0, CI=11.5-17.0), and mental health visits (OR=26.1, CI=22.2-30.6) also predicted EM+ status. Forty-six percent of VHA Veterans with indicators of EM were aged 50-64. For these Veterans, female gender, PTSD, service connection, and mental health visits were associated with increased risk of EM compared to Veterans 65+. Findings highlight clinical correlates of EMs among Veterans in VHA care. Increased awareness of EM risk factors is warranted and may inform VHA efforts for EM prevention, detection and intervention. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8969627/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3195 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969627/
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