Hydle I
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Ulleval Hospital, University of Oslo.
Scand J Soc Med. 1993 Jun;21(2):126-8. doi: 10.1177/140349489302100212.
This article describes how abuse and neglect of the elderly was made an issue for research in a Nordic perspective. The Council of Nordic Ministers funded a cooperation between Nordic researchers on the issue of abuse of the elderly, based on a Norwegian initiative in 1988. The aim was to establish a base of knowledge in order to recommend social and political measures for each country. The researchers were chosen from the disciplines of social work, social anthropology, sociology, nursing sciences and medicine. Interested researchers were hard to find in Iceland and Denmark. Important results are on a theoretical level the discussion and perspectives on the definition of "family", "violence" and "elderly". On the practical level the results reveal that between 8% and 17% of a random population sample in Denmark, Sweden and Finland knew about elderly people being abused in their homes. Between 1 and 8% of elderly people living in their homes are being abused by their close kin, according to either the old people themselves or as reported by home nurses. In one of the Swedish projects 12% of close family members, being responsible for the care of a demented, mostly spouse or parent, admitted abuse towards the demented person. Swedish home nurses described the difficulties in intervening into the abusive families.
本文描述了从北欧视角出发，老年人受虐待和被忽视问题是如何成为研究课题的。北欧部长理事会基于1988年挪威的一项倡议，资助了北欧研究人员就老年人受虐待问题开展合作。其目的是建立一个知识基础，以便为每个国家推荐社会和政治措施。研究人员选自社会工作、社会人类学、社会学、护理科学和医学等学科。在冰岛和丹麦，很难找到感兴趣的研究人员。重要成果在理论层面体现在对“家庭”“暴力”和“老年人”定义的讨论及观点上。在实践层面，结果显示，在丹麦、瑞典和芬兰的随机人口样本中，8%至17%的人知晓有老年人在家中受虐待。据老年人自身或家庭护士报告，居住在家中的老年人中有1%至8%正遭受近亲虐待。在瑞典的一个项目中，负责照顾痴呆患者（大多为配偶或父母）的近亲属中有12%承认对痴呆患者有虐待行为。瑞典家庭护士描述了干预虐待家庭所面临的困难。
