Research Briefs and Agendas

NCEA partners have had a role in such major research undertakings as, National Elder Abuse Incidence Study (1996), Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America, National Research Council Panel to Review Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect (2003), and Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, (1998).

NCEA funds the Clearinghouse on Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly at the University of Delaware to provide extensive access to the published literature relating to elder abuse. The CANE archive includes references and abstracts to over 3,000 journal articles, scholarly papers, and other data sources.

Research Syntheses

• Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America (2003)
  Richard J. Bonnie and Robert B. Wallace, Eds., Panel to Review Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Read Online .
  
• Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs (1998)
  Rosemary Chalk and Patricia A. King, Eds., National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. Read Online .
  
• National Center on Elder Abuse commissioned Reviews of Research
  
  • Emotional distress and elder abuse
    
  • Risk assessment tools
    
  • Abuse in Nursing Homes
    
  • Domestic Abuse in Later Life
    
    • Abusers
    • Causation Theories
    • Cultural Considerations
    • Prevalence and Incidence
    • Relationships
• CANE Bibliography Series
• Agendas for Research
  
  • National Policy Summit on Elder Abuse Creating and Promoting an Elder Abuse Action Agenda Proceedings of the 2001 National Policy Summit on Elder Abuse, convened by National Center on Elder Abuse on December 4-6 in Washington, DC (2002)
    
  • A Research Agenda on Abuse of Older Persons and Adults with Disabilities , by Rosalie S. Wolf, Ph.D., National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (1999)