Citation

Crockett C, Brandl B, Dabby FC. J. Elder Abuse Negl. 2015; 27(4-5): 291-302.

Affiliation

Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Gender-Based Violence , San Francisco , CA , USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/08946566.2015.1090361

PMID

26371877

Abstract

Violence against older women exists in the margins between domestic violence and elder abuse, with neither field adequately capturing the experiences of older women survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). This commentary explores this oversight, identifying how the lack of gender analysis in the elder abuse field exacerbates older survivors' invisibility when the wider violence against women (VAW) field lacks a lifespan approach to abuse. Examining the impact of generational and aging factors on how older women experience IPV, we assert that the VAW field may be overlooking a wider population of survivors than previously thought. Moving forward, older women will not be reliably served by either the elder abuse or VAW fields unless research, policy, and programs adopt both an age and gender-responsive lens.

Language: en