Violence against the elderly: a documentary study

• Autor(a) principal: Sanches Alarcon, Miriam Fernanda [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Damaceno, Daniela Garcia [UNESP], Lazarini, Carlos Alberto, Doretto Braccialli, Luzmarina Aparecida, Yoneda Sponchiado, Viviane Boacnin, Sanches Marin, Maria Jose
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20192041450; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/195074
• topic: Aged; Aging; Violence; Health of the Elderly; Aged Rights

Objective: to associate the sociodemographic characteristics of elderly victims of violence and of the aggressors with types of violence. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, retrospective study developed in a police station. A total of 346 police reports were analyzed, and the statistical analyses of comparisons were made in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25.0.0.0. Results: type of violence was positively associated with area of the city, sex, marital status, schooling, age, place of occurrence, legal basis, and form of notification of the victim. There was a predominance of financial violence among men, while other types of violence, white skin, presence of a partner, and the victim's home as the place of occurrence predominated among women. There was a predominance of male aggressors. Conclusion: the police reports indicated the association of different sociodemographic data of victims and aggressors with the types of violence.