... Police Service to inform the development of a training curriculum for police officers working with older persons. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative descriptive study using virtual focus groups with 26 older adults from Toronto was conducted. Findings Three main themes emerged...

... harm, I nspire change, S upport connection, E mpower choice (RISE), implemented to complement adult protective services. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews and a focus group were conducted with RISE advocates (n = 4). A descriptive phenomenological approach involving two...

.../approach This exploratory study used a qualitative research methodology that sets out to explore staff’s perception of elder abuse in nursing homes and hospitals in Ghana. Five nursing assistants and two caregivers were interviewed in two nursing homes and four nurses were interviewed in one hospital...

... a foundation for best practice to emerge. Sarah Shorrock can be contacted at: sshorrock1@uclan.ac.uk 28 06 2019 19 09 2019 10 10 2019 18 10 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Qualitative Safeguarding...

... transcribed. Qualitative data interviews were analysed using a constant comparative approach. Accordingly transcripts were read and an analytic framework developed and applied based on emergent themes. Here, we focus on a subset of the data which illuminates how homelessness was experienced. We draw...

...Ana Paula Gil; Ana João Santos; Irina Kislaya Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how qualitative approaches can improve a prevalence study on older adults’ violence. The paper describes how qualitative data can help frame a complex and multidimensional problem, such as older...