Yaffe Mark J, Weiss Deborah, Wolfson Christina, Lithwick Maxine
McGill University, Department of Family Medicine and St. Mary's Hospital, 3830 Lacombe Ave, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1M5.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2007;19(1-2):47-60, table of contents. doi: 10.1300/J084v19n01_04.
Family doctors' frequent contact with seniors put them in reasonable positions to detect elder abuse and initiate referral to adult protective services. Since doctor reporting is low, however, this paper explores whether the gender of patient and/or doctor impacts on identification of elder mistreatment, or creates differential detection of one gender over the other. Use of the validated Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI), and a structured social work evaluation, is described to provide some gender-based data from Canadian family practice. Specifically, while the prevalence of elder abuse is estimated to range from 12.0% to 13.3%, the specific prevalence was found for females to be 13.6% to 15.2% and for males 9.1% to 9.7%.
家庭医生与老年人的频繁接触使他们处于能够合理察觉虐待老年人行为并将其转介至成人保护服务机构的有利位置。然而，由于医生报告的情况较少，本文探讨患者和/或医生的性别是否会影响对老年人虐待行为的识别，或者是否会导致对某一性别的检测存在差异。文中描述了使用经过验证的《虐待老年人怀疑指数》（EASI）以及进行结构化的社会工作评估，以提供来自加拿大家庭医疗实践的一些基于性别的数据。具体而言，虽然据估计虐待老年人行为的发生率在12.0%至13.3%之间，但发现女性的具体发生率为13.6%至15.2%，男性为9.1%至9.7%。
