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- Title
Sexual assault in aged care.
- Authors
Smith, Daisy; Ibrahim, Joseph E.
- Abstract
The article offers information on sexual assault is the least acknowledged, detected, and reported type, in people living in Residential Aged Care (RAC). Topic include Prevention of sexual assaults in RAC is delay by: reticence of reporting; absence of suspicion on the part of clinicians; difficulties in obtaining a history from residents with dementia; ambiguous clinical signs; denial by carers; disagreements around assault definitions; an absence of standardised approach among researcher.
- Subjects
SEX crime prevention; ELDER care; COGNITION; VICTIM psychology; RESIDENTIAL care; OLD age
- Publication
Australian Journal of Dementia Care, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 5, p2
- ISSN
2049-6893
- Publication type
Article