{"title":"Between the lines.","authors":"P. Stephenson","doi":"10.7748/ns.5.49.18.s36","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"If recent reports in the media are anything to go by, then there has been a huge increase in 'elder abuse' during the past few years. Common sense tells us this isn't the case; abuse of elderly people has been happening for years but awareness of the issue is now increasing.","PeriodicalId":75012,"journal":{"name":"The Health service journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"18-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"92","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Health service journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.5.49.18.s36","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
If recent reports in the media are anything to go by, then there has been a huge increase in 'elder abuse' during the past few years. Common sense tells us this isn't the case; abuse of elderly people has been happening for years but awareness of the issue is now increasing.