Population Research |
Incidence of elder abuse subtypes in different setting |
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Longitudinal study of risk/protective factors |
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Potential perpetrator characteristic, relationship, settings and context of elder abuse |
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Consequences of elder abuse |
Leverage Existing Longitudinal Studies |
Chicago Health and Aging Project, Health and Retirement Study, National Social Health Aging Project, etc |
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Dataset linkage with adult protective service (APS) data |
Adult Protective Services |
Unification across states with core elements of data collection |
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Unification of definitions for elder abuse |
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APS outcome and its effectiveness |
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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 |
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Use of community-based participatory research methods |