...Rajat Banerjee; Sayantani Biswas Purpose The purpose of the study, which is an extension of the corresponding author’s PHD work, is to assess the nature, scope and extent of elder abuse in India’s urban settings. It tries to explore the reasons as to why elder abuse is increasing and tends...

...Mengxuan Chen Purpose This study aims to explore the role of robocare in combating elder abuse and protecting older adults’ rights within LTC environments. Design/methodology/approach This study explores the role of robocare in addressing abuse through a literature-based analysis grounded...

...Emma Austin-Garrod Purpose This paper aims to study themes of abuse and mistreatment of people with a learning disability. Personal stories of lived experience such as this are important pieces of learning and information for practitioners. This case study is intended to add to the limited...

.... Not all academic environments are entirely safe, and there are recorded cases of victims of harassment and sexual abuse. Design/methodology/approach Given that co-workers in a laboratory, or research subjects in a research project, may be victims of harassment or sexual abuse, and that the same...

...Louise Jayne Whitehead Purpose This paper aims to explore the links between being lonely and isolated, and increased risks of abuse for adults with care and support needs. Design/methodology/approach Thematic analysis was used to explore features of loneliness and social isolation present...

...Fiona Sherwood-Johnson; Kirstein Rummery; Julia Lawrence; Kathryn Mackay; Kathryn Ramsay; Rebecca McGregor Purpose Most abuse affecting older adults in the UK, as across Europe, takes place within caring relationships, where one person is disabled and needs care/support. This paper critically...

... care (n = 11) in England. Findings Abuse is less likely to occur when clinicians are maintaining the dignity of their patients. The themes of time and space are used to demonstrate some fundamental ways in which dignity manifests. The absence of dignity offers opportunities for abuse and neglect...

... of rights without such exceptions based on old age (United Nations, 1948). Safeguarding Abuse Isolation COVID-19 pandemic Active ageing Conceptual crisis Human rights of older persons Neoliberal project of ageing The last decades of the 20th century were marked by a boom in research...

...Steve Moore Purpose Strategic socio-political views are notably scarce among contemporary discourses on the causes of abuse of vulnerable older people in care and nursing homes. This paper aims to catalyse higher order consideration and discussion of one socio-political characteristic that has...

... and descriptive data drawn from the safeguarding team, under-reporting was examined through the lens of an ecological model. Safeguarding alerts raised in a particular year were compared with the number expected if all (estimated) cases of abuse were disclosed and reported. Findings Only 4.4 per cent...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from two research projects undertaken between 2015 and 2019 that reveal continued underreporting and sometimes active concealment of abuse in private sector care homes for older people in England. Design/methodology/approach...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from face-to-face interviews with three former care staff who were proven to have abused some of the older people living in the care and nursing homes in which they had once worked. The research sought to explore the intra...

... to thematic analysis. Findings The analysis identified three main themes: levels of information and awareness; safeguarding concerns and processes; and choice and control. Many of the participants in this small study described having experienced multiple forms of abuse or neglect concurrently...

... was that many people said they had been “harmed” by their experience with some labelling it as “Spiritual Abuse” (SA). Respondents in the 2013 study also stressed the importance of developing safeguarding policy and practice in this area. The purpose of this paper is to explore the findings of a more extensive...

... in the prevention of abuse. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 16 care and nursing home managers. Findings Though personnel employed by the local authority who conducted contract monitoring were generally thought of positively by care home managers on a personal...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from an empirical research project designed to enhance knowledge of the current extent and nature of abuse in contemporary care homes for older people. Design/methodology/approach A self-completion, postal questionnaire...

...Ellen Frances Fraser-Barbour; Ruth Crocker; Ruth Walker Purpose Evidence from Australia and worldwide has highlighted the ongoing marginalisation, discrimination, abuse, violence and neglect of people with disability. One of the main areas of concern is that despite such evidence there remain...

... 12 2017 19 12 2017 20 12 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mental health Social work Personalization Older people Safeguarding Learning/intellectual disabilities Legal Neglect Adult social care Abuse...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a research project designed to determine the qualifications held by those staff who had perpetrated abuse in private sector care and nursing homes for older people during a 12-month period. Design/methodology/approach...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present some of the findings from an empirical, mixed methods research project that reveal the importance of the personal value frameworks held by individual staff in the prevention of abuse of older people in private sector care homes. Design...