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How does the elder justice act help prevent elder abuse?
funds resources for: prevention, prosecution, victim assistance (shelters), uniform data collection/management, long term care community (reporting, consumer informing, increasing quality)
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What are the reported experiences of homosexual couples?
- serial monogamy
- similar relationship quality to heterosexual couples
- same sex more independent
- egalitarian
- retirement is positive
- same life expectancy
- less poverty
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Who provides the most help to frail elderly?
family (more children give care than spouses but spouses do more hours)
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What are the gender differences in family caregiving?
women provide care during free time
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How does the Family and Medical Leave Act assist with caregiving?
- provides ability to have up to 12 weeks off from work, return to original or equal job position, have unpaid or paid leave
- only available in jobs with 50+ employees or public sector job
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What is involved in caregiver burden?
- emotional and physical caregiver stress
- unemployed women have more caregiver stress than employed
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How does caregiving effect parent-child relationships?
- mutuality (both satisfied)
- ambivalence (cost vs. rewards)
- conflicted (just challenges) role reversal
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What are the caregiving effects on grandchildren?
- challenges: parents lack time for children, finances, and crowded households
- positives: feeling empathetic toward elderly and closer feeling to parents
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What is the daily life in a nursing home focused on?
physical rather than emotional needs
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What do Ombudsman do?
assist people with concerns about a nursing home
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Which nursing homes have most problems?
those for profit only
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What are the reasons for total institutions?
- retreat (monastery or convent)
- protect the community
- work-like task (military posts/barracks)
- care for those incapable and a threat (mental hospital)
- care for incapable and harmless
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What is self-mortification?
death of our identity
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What is deference obligation?
following someone else's rules, lack of autonomy
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What is verbal/physical humiliation?
having to ask for everything
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What is contaminative exposure?
no control over who knows you and your situation
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What is intransigent line?
person who fights back
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What is colonization?
person who does what they are supposed to
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What is involved in internal migration?
- accumulation (older stay, younger move)
- recomposition (older move in, younger move out)
- congregation (all move in but older move in more)
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Why do older adults move?
- amenity migration
- kinship/assistance migration
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What is peter pan housing?
built for non-aging people
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Why do older people choose alternative living arrangements?
- less maintenance
- be around those with similar situations
- requiring more assistance
- finances
- transportation
- widowhood
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What are the goals of alternative housing?
autonomy and security
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What are the losses face as an older adult?
- identity
- abilities
- social connections
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What are the types of elder abuse?
- physical
- sexual
- emotional
- financial/material
- neglect (active, passive, self-neglect)
- abandonment
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What are the risk factors of elder abuse?
- drug and/or alcohol abuse
- family history of violence
- dependence on others for financial support
- caregiving burdens
- social isolation
- recent stressful life events
- cultural issues
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