Effectively Detect and Manage: ELDER ABUSE

Nurse Practitioner,  Aug 2004  by Brown, Kathleen,  Streubert, George E,  Burgess, Ann W

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

10. Susman M, DiRusso SM, Sullivan T, et al.: Traumatic brain injury in the elderly: increased mortality and worse functional outcome at discharge despite lower injury severity. J Trauma 2002;53(2):391.

11. Hogue C: Injury in later life: epidemiology. J Am Geriatric Soc 1992; 30{5):183-190.

12. Pentland B, Jones PA, Roy CW, et al:, Head injury in the elderly. Aging 1996;15(4):193-201.

13. Fogelholm R, Helskonon O, Waltimo (D): Chronic subdurals in adults: influence of patient's age. J Neurosurg 1995;42(9):43-6.

14. Ramin SM: Sexual assualt in postmenopausal women. Obst Gynecol 1992;80(5):860-4.

15. Cartwright PS: Factors that correlate with injury sustained by survivors of sexual assault. Obstetrics and Gynecology 1987;70(l):44-6.

16. Cartright PS, Moore RA: The elderly rape victim. Southern Medical Journal 1989; 82(8)988-9.

17. TyraPA: Older women: victims of rape. J Gerontol Nurs 1993;19(5):7-12.

18. Slaughter L, Brown CR: Patterns of genital injury in female sexual assault vicitms. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997; 176(3): 609-16.

Kathleen Brown, RIM, PhD, NPG

George E. Streubert, MD

Ann W. Burgess, RIM, DNSc, CS

AUTHOR DISCLOSURE

The authors have disclosed that they have no significant relationship or financial interest in any commercial companies that pertain to this education activity.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Brown is a Nurse Practitioner in Women's Health and Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia. Dr. Streubert is in private radiology practice in Bethlehem, Pa. Dr. Burgess is Faculty at Boston College School of Nursing.

Copyright Springhouse Corporation Aug 2004
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved