Daly Jeanette M, Jogerst Gerald J
Department of Family Medicine, University of Lowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Lowa City, IA 52242, USA.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2006;18(1):19-39. doi: 10.1300/j084v18n01_02.
Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia have adult protective services (APS) related statutes that define adult/elder mistreatment found in domestic settings. Institutional adult/elder mistreatment laws are administered by the nursing home licensing agencies and may contain different or duplicate APS-related mistreatment definitions. The purposes of this paper are to describe and summarize the mistreatment definitions in the nursing home licensure statutes and compare those definitions with the definitions found in the APS-related statutes.
Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis law database systems were used to retrieve all adult protective services statutes and institutional licensure statutes. Each statute's text was reviewed and coded by two researchers.
Institutional mistreatment definitions are addressed in 14 of the states and District of Columbia's nursing home statutes. No one state has a list of the 27 different definitions of mistreatment identified in the literature search. The common types of mistreatment described were physical and emotional abuse, neglect, financial and property exploitation, and sexual abuse.
Standardized definitions of resident-to-resident and institutional specific types of mistreatment need to be included in nursing home statutes.
49个州和哥伦比亚特区都有与成人保护服务（APS）相关的法规，这些法规界定了在家庭环境中发现的成人/老年人虐待行为。机构成人/老年人虐待法律由养老院许可机构执行，可能包含不同或重复的与APS相关的虐待定义。本文的目的是描述和总结养老院许可法规中的虐待定义，并将这些定义与APS相关法规中的定义进行比较。
使用Westlaw和Lexis-Nexis法律数据库系统检索所有成人保护服务法规和机构许可法规。两名研究人员对每条法规的文本进行了审查和编码。
14个州和哥伦比亚特区的养老院法规涉及机构虐待定义。没有一个州列出文献搜索中确定的27种不同的虐待定义。所描述的常见虐待类型包括身体和情感虐待、忽视、财务和财产剥削以及性虐待。
养老院法规应纳入居民之间以及机构特定类型虐待的标准化定义。
