The DOI matches its Crossref record; the references it cites are not checked yet.
Ethical Dilemmas of Reporting Suspected Elder Abuse
Abstract
Elder abuse reporting laws exist in every state to protect elderly people being abused physically or emotionally, suffering from neglect, or experiencing financial exploitation. Support groups for caregivers of elderly individuals may help prevent elder abuse by reducing caregiver stress and linking caregivers to community services. Using case illustrations, the authors raise the dilemmas that group facilitators face when deciding whether to report a group member suspected of abusing his or her elder care recipient. The ethical concerns of reporting or withholding a report are discussed, and recommendations to assist facilitators in this complex decision process are presented.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 13 · Cited by 48
Metadata
- Authors
- Bergeron, L. R., & Gray, B.
- Affiliations
- University of New Hampshire (US)
- University of New England (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bergeron, L. R.
- Venue
- Social Work
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 96-105
- ISSN
- 0037-8046 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6846
- OpenAlex
- W2043116637
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 12.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Work (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Ethics in medical practice
- Keywords
- elder abuse, mandatory reporting, ethical dilemmas, support groups, caregiver stress, group facilitators, elder neglect, economic violence, elder abuse prevention
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Elder Abuse, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Social Support, Social Work, Caregivers, Mandatory Reporting
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
