Assessment tools for elder abuse: scoping review.

Renata Clemente Dos Santos-Rodrigues Bárbara Maria Lopes da Silva Brandão Gleicy Karine Nascimento de Araújo Monteiro Emanuella de Castro Marcolino Ronei Marcos de Moraes Rafaella Queiroga Souto

Published in: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P (2022)

seventeen tools to determine the occurrence or risk for elder abuse were identified with different psychometric properties. We recommend the use of more than one of the tools identified for an appropriate measurement of elder abuse situations given the complexity of the phenomenon and the lack of a single instrument that contemplates all its consequences and forms of expression.

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