THE PROBLEM OF ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALONE: AN ELDERLY NEGLECT CASE
TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, cilt.17, sa.1, ss.99-102, 2014 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus, TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 17 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2014
- Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.99-102
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Aged, Elder Abuse, Autopsy, RISK-FACTOR, LONELINESS, ADULTS
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
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.