A NEW STEP TO PREVENT ELDER ABUSE IN JAPAN

This paper first introduces major aspects of the Japanese Act on the Prevention of Elder Abuse, including trends in substantiated elder abuse cases in both institutional and domestic settings, definitions of elder abuse, and abusers and reporting systems. It then introduces the recent amendment of o...

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Autores principales: Tsukada, Noriko, Ikeda, Naoki, Katsumata, Asako
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9765864/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1358
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description This paper first introduces major aspects of the Japanese Act on the Prevention of Elder Abuse, including trends in substantiated elder abuse cases in both institutional and domestic settings, definitions of elder abuse, and abusers and reporting systems. It then introduces the recent amendment of operational standards in institutional settings made by ministerial ordinance. The amendment includes a requirement to develop a committee to prevent occurrence and recurrence of elder abuse and to appoint a designated individual to establish guidelines and implement training. It is hoped to further prevent elder abuse in Japan.
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spelling pubmed-97658642022-12-20 A NEW STEP TO PREVENT ELDER ABUSE IN JAPAN Tsukada, Noriko Ikeda, Naoki Katsumata, Asako Innov Aging Abstracts This paper first introduces major aspects of the Japanese Act on the Prevention of Elder Abuse, including trends in substantiated elder abuse cases in both institutional and domestic settings, definitions of elder abuse, and abusers and reporting systems. It then introduces the recent amendment of operational standards in institutional settings made by ministerial ordinance. The amendment includes a requirement to develop a committee to prevent occurrence and recurrence of elder abuse and to appoint a designated individual to establish guidelines and implement training. It is hoped to further prevent elder abuse in Japan. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9765864/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.1358 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. 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 (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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