Understanding 'Elder Abuse and Neglect': A Critique of Assumptions Underpinning Responses to the Mistreatment and Neglect of Older People This article provides an overview of the ways in which the mistreatment and neglect of older people have come to be understood as a social problem, one whi.....
individuals subject to guardianship in the 1960s. However, it was not until 1987 when the Associated Press published an article documenting the ways in which older adults were stripped of their rights, oftentimes with little or no evidence, and were then abused or exploited (Bayles and ...