Alcohol Use and Abusive or Neglectful Behaviors Among Family Caregivers of Patients With Dementia.

Importance: The increasing prevalence of dementia presents challenges for family caregivers. Understanding how alcohol use among caregivers relates to abusive and neglectful behaviors (ANBs) toward care recipients with dementia may inform interventions to improve the well-being of both.

Objective: To explore alcohol use patterns among family caregivers of relatives with dementia and investigate whether hazardous drinking and drinking on a given day are independently associated with increased odds of ANBs toward care recipients.

Causal Mediation Analysis for the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence Reveals Pathways From Child Maltreatment to Elder Mistreatment.

Background And Objectives: The effects of child maltreatment victimization affect the life-course trajectories of families including increasing risk of engaging in elder mistreatment when assuming a family caregiving role. This study evaluates the social-emotional information process theory as a mechanism that causally connects child maltreatment victimization with later engagement in elder mistreatment in the context of dementia family caregiving.

Research Design And Methods: During a 12-month observational longitudinal study, self-identified family caregivers to persons with dementia (N = 457) were recruited nationally to complete online surveys at enrollment, and 6- and 12-month follow-up.

Patterns of substance-involved intimate partner violence perpetration: Findings from a daily diary study.

Background: Previous work has linked substance use to intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, but the extent to which patterns of substance use influence patterns of IPV perpetration is unclear.

Methods: Women (N = 216, M = 40.7 years [SD = 13.

Mechanisms Underlying the Use of Abusive and Neglectful Behaviors in Dementia Caregiving: The Role of Caregiver Mental Health.

Purpose: In dementia family caregiving, caregiver psychopathology has been frequently identified as a possible risk factor for the use of physically abusive, psychologically abusive, and neglectful behaviors toward care recipients. Yet, the mechanistic role of psychopathology in the use of these behaviors is not understood. The purpose of the current study is to determine the role of caregiver mental health in their daily risk of engaging in physically and psychologically aggressive and neglectful behaviors toward their care recipient with dementia.

Patterns of Family Conflict and Accusations of Abuse in Dementia Family Caregivers: A Latent Class Analysis.

Background And Objectives: Family conflict is a stressor for dementia family caregivers, yet its impact may differ based on the relationship between caregivers and their recipients. This study's objectives were to categorize caregivers into groups based on family conflict, examine whether the relationship to the recipient influences group membership, and determine whether these groups are associated with engaging in abusive and neglectful behaviors.

Research Design And Methods: This national, cross-sectional study of 453 dementia family caregivers used latent class analysis to generate groups based on family conflict and abuse accusations.

Pragmatic Randomized Control Trial of a Coordinated Community Response: Increasing Access to Services for At-Risk Older Adults.

Background: Elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation (EANF) impacts over five million community-dwelling older adults. Yet, no evidence-based intervention models exist that prevent EANF.

Objectives: In this article, we describe the assessment of process outcomes for a Community Complex Care Response Team (C3RT) model developed, via a practitioner-researcher partnership, to reduce instances of EANF victimization among higher risk community-dwelling older adults by identifying and coordinating their service needs.

Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic Had No Discernable Impact on Risk of Elder Abuse and Neglect Among Dementia Family Caregivers: A Daily Diary Study.

Unlabelled: There is widespread concern that elder abuse and neglect (EAN) incidents increased during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic due in part to increases in risk factors. Initial reports relying on administrative systems such as adult protective services records produced mixed results regarding whether or not there was a change in EAN incidents. Using data from an ongoing longitudinal study on EAN in dementia family caregiving that started before the pandemic, we assessed the hypothesis that the pandemic is related to a change in probability of EAN and EAN protective factors.

Development and Implementation of a Coordinated Community Response to Address Elder Abuse and Neglect.

Background: Elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation impacts over five million community-dwelling older adults in the United States. Although services are available to help these victims, they are often fragmented within communities with service providers having limited means to provide preventative services. The coordinated community response (CCR) is a type of coalition intended to overcome siloed services through a single-point-of-entry system and more team-based approaches to prevention.

Dynamic structural equation modelling evaluating the progressively lowered stress threshold as an explanation for behavioural symptoms of dementia.

Aim: To evaluate the progressively lowered stress threshold (PLST) conceptual model as an explanation for behavioural symptoms of dementia and test several of its hypothesized propositions. The PLST model suggests that due to impairments in coping, persons living with dementia have a reduced threshold for stress and respond with more behavioural symptoms of dementia as stress accumulates throughout the day.

Design: Intensive longitudinal design.

Criminal Protection Orders Among Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Women's Experiences of Court Decisions, Processes, and Their Willingness to Engage With the System in the Future.

Consistent with a therapeutic jurisprudence framework, court decisions and processes can have a therapeutic or antitherapeutic effect on intimate partner violence (IPV) victims. To maximize therapeutic effects, IPV scholars have advocated for survivor-defined practices that emphasize the importance of engaging with victims in a collaborative manner that promotes autonomy, choice, and control. However, limited research exists in the context of criminal protection orders (POs).

General Offending and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Young Adulthood: A Dutch Longitudinal Study.

This study examines the relationship between general offending and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in young adulthood, using a Dutch longitudinal study. Young adults were followed over four waves, and self-reported data on general offending, IPV perpetration, and a number of individual characteristics were collected. Results of random effects models demonstrated that young adults involved in more diverse offending behavior reported higher levels of different types of IPV perpetration, even when individual factors were taken into account.

The Relationship Between the Development of General Offending and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Young Adulthood.

This study examined how patterns in general offending relate to the occurrence of and likelihood of persistence in intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in young adulthood. The study used longitudinal data from the cohort of 18 year olds from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods study. Self-reported offending was measured in all three waves, and data on IPV were collected in Waves 1 and 3.

Progress toward national estimates of police use of force.

This research builds on three decades of effort to produce national estimates of the amount and rate of force used by law enforcement officers in the United States. Prior efforts to produce national estimates have suffered from poor and inconsistent measurements of force, small and unrepresentative samples, low survey and/or item response rates, and disparate reporting of rates of force. The present study employs data from a nationally representative survey of state and local law enforcement agencies that has a high survey response rate as well as a relatively high rate of reporting uses of force.

Lethal intimate partner violence in later life: Understanding measurements, strengths, and limitations of research.

The aim of this article is to conduct a critical analysis of existing family violence literature related to elder abuse homicide, also known as "eldercide." The focus relates to fatal violence perpetrated by current or former intimates. Men are the most likely victims of homicide but are rarely murdered by partners.

An examination of whether coordinated community responses affect intimate partner violence.

This study tests the impact of coordinated community response (CCR) on reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) and on modifying knowledge and attitudes. The authors conduct hierarchical linear modeling of data from a stratified random-digit dial telephone survey (n = 12,039) in 10 test and 10 control sites, which include 23 counties from different regions in the United States, to establish the impact of a CCR on community members' attitudes toward IPV, knowledge and use of available IPV services, and prevalence of IPV. Findings indicate that CCRs do not affect knowledge, beliefs, or attitudes of IPV, knowledge and use of available IPV services, nor risk of exposure to IPV after controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, income, and education.

Experiencing and witnessing familial aggression and their relationship to physically aggressive behaviors among Filipino adolescents.

The effects of family violence on children's aggressive behaviors have been the focus of much research. However, results have been equivocal in at least the following three areas: (a) the specific effects on aggression of child-directed violence versus child-witnessed violence, (b) the salience of family violence as an explanation of aggression when other theoretically relevant explanations of aggression are controlled (i.e.