Citation

McNeely RL, Cook PW. J. Elder Abuse Negl. 2007; 19(1-2): 99-108.

Affiliation

Department of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Bader School of Social Welfare, Milwaukee, WI 53216, USA. rlmatty@ticon.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J084v19n01_07

PMID

18077272

Abstract

Law enforcement press releases and other print-media miscellany detailing accounts of male elder abuse involving insurance fraud, false allegations by perpetrators, and abuse inflicted by caregivers, spawned interest in a more systematic review. That review was accomplished principally by accessing two search engines, with news articles from 1986 to the present. A review of these media accounts transformed the initial "insurance fraud" category into a broader one classified as "economic exploitation." That same review also resulted in three distinctive categories of caregiver abuse. This article provides abbreviated case accounts within each category, and concludes with brief notes on several themes derived from the reported accounts.

Language: en