THE PROBLEM OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALONE: AN ELDERLY NEGLECT CASE

Erkol Z., CANTÜRK N.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, vol.17, no.1, pp.99-102, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 17 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.99-102
  • Keywords: Aged, Elder Abuse, Autopsy, RISK-FACTOR, LONELINESS, ADULTS
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Because of many concomitant chronic diseases, old age is a phase of life where elderly people become dependent on others for their self-care. Self-neglect and/or neglect of elderly people who live alone and cannot maintain a high quality of social, healthcare and psychiatric assistance is an important public problem. Sometimes the death of an elderly person is only noticed when a malodor spreads to the environment or maggots leave a house through the doorsill.