Table 2.

Major Research Directions for the Field of Elder Abuse

Population Research	Incidence of elder abuse subtypes in different setting
	Longitudinal study of risk/protective factors
	Potential perpetrator characteristic, relationship, settings and context of elder abuse
	Consequences of elder abuse
Leverage Existing Longitudinal Studies	Chicago Health and Aging Project, Health and Retirement Study, National Social Health Aging Project, etc
	Dataset linkage with adult protective service (APS) data
Adult Protective Services	Unification across states with core elements of data collection
	Unification of definitions for elder abuse
	APS outcome and its effectiveness
	Access to elder abuse victims to conduct quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods research
Intervention Studies	On both victims and perpetrators
Cultural Issues	Linguistic/cultural complexicities
	Use of community-based participatory research methods