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

Erkol Z., CANTÜRK N.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, cilt.17, sa.1, ss.99-102, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • 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.