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ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION
Elder abuse (EA) is common and has devastating health consequences yet is rarely detected by healthcare professionals. Veterans are at high risk for EA, and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has experience screening for complex psychosocial phenomena including intimate partner violence. While...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766908/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2755 |
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author | Makaroun, Lena Halaszynski, Jaime Smith, Kathrine Dichter, Melissa Rosland, Ann-Marie Thorpe, Carolyn Rosen, Tony |
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description | Elder abuse (EA) is common and has devastating health consequences yet is rarely detected by healthcare professionals. Veterans are at high risk for EA, and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has experience screening for complex psychosocial phenomena including intimate partner violence. While the VHA has national policy regarding mandatory reporting of EA cases, little is known about the extent to which VHA sites currently screen for EA in a standardized fashion and what approaches are used. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a national survey of all 170 parent station VHA medical centers from January to August of 2021. Surveys were distributed electronically to the Social Work Chief at each site, as social work is responsible for interpersonal violence response in VHA. The survey assessed the presence and characteristics of EA-specific screening practices as well as general abuse/neglect screening conducted with patients of all ages, including older adults. Follow up emails were sent to sites who reported conducting screening requesting additional details not included in the initial survey. Overall, 138 sites (81%) responded to the survey. Among respondents, 3% reported screening older adults for EA using a previously published tool, while 2% reported screening for EA with an unstudied or locally-developed tool. Forty-three percent reported doing general abuse/neglect screening using unstudied questions/tools for patients of all ages, and 41% reported no EA screening at their site. The wide variability in current EA screening practices in VHA presents an important opportunity to standardize and improve EA detection practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-97669082022-12-21 ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION Makaroun, Lena Halaszynski, Jaime Smith, Kathrine Dichter, Melissa Rosland, Ann-Marie Thorpe, Carolyn Rosen, Tony Innov Aging Late Breaking Abstracts Elder abuse (EA) is common and has devastating health consequences yet is rarely detected by healthcare professionals. Veterans are at high risk for EA, and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has experience screening for complex psychosocial phenomena including intimate partner violence. While the VHA has national policy regarding mandatory reporting of EA cases, little is known about the extent to which VHA sites currently screen for EA in a standardized fashion and what approaches are used. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a national survey of all 170 parent station VHA medical centers from January to August of 2021. Surveys were distributed electronically to the Social Work Chief at each site, as social work is responsible for interpersonal violence response in VHA. The survey assessed the presence and characteristics of EA-specific screening practices as well as general abuse/neglect screening conducted with patients of all ages, including older adults. Follow up emails were sent to sites who reported conducting screening requesting additional details not included in the initial survey. Overall, 138 sites (81%) responded to the survey. Among respondents, 3% reported screening older adults for EA using a previously published tool, while 2% reported screening for EA with an unstudied or locally-developed tool. Forty-three percent reported doing general abuse/neglect screening using unstudied questions/tools for patients of all ages, and 41% reported no EA screening at their site. The wide variability in current EA screening practices in VHA presents an important opportunity to standardize and improve EA detection practices. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766908/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2755 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. |
spellingShingle | Late Breaking Abstracts Makaroun, Lena Halaszynski, Jaime Smith, Kathrine Dichter, Melissa Rosland, Ann-Marie Thorpe, Carolyn Rosen, Tony ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title | ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title_full | ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title_fullStr | ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title_full_unstemmed | ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title_short | ELDER ABUSE SCREENING PRACTICES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE EVALUATION |
title_sort | elder abuse screening practices in the veterans health administration: results from a nationwide evaluation |
topic | Late Breaking Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766908/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2755 |
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