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Book review Book review Missing Voices: Views of Older Persons on Elder Abuse WHO/INPEA Geveva, World Health Organization, 2002 No ISBN Ageways Issue 59 Newsletter of HelpAge International, London, April 2002 Recognition of the need to raise awareness of the problem of elder abuse world-wide led the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), in partnership with organisations such as HelpAge International, to launch the Global Response Against Elder Abuse Project in 2001. Missing Voices reports the first stage of the project and summarises the findings from studies in eight countries across the world. This explored the perceptions of elder abuse by older people and primary health care workers through the use of focus groups. The individual reports (also available from the WHO website, translated into English) are variable in style and structure and each has material which is associated with the country’s particular cultural and political environment. However, common themes emerge, which are succinctly summarised in the main report. The strongest theme is governments’ failure to fulfil their obligations towards older adults through provision of adequate public services and income (defined in the Argentinian report as ‘societal abuse’). In Kenya, Lebanon and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Adult Protection Emerald Publishing

Book review

Mathew, Dinah
The Journal of Adult Protection , Volume 4 (4): 2 – Nov 1, 2002
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Book review Missing Voices: Views of Older Persons on Elder Abuse WHO/INPEA Geveva, World Health Organization, 2002 No ISBN Ageways Issue 59 Newsletter of HelpAge International, London, April 2002 Recognition of the need to raise awareness of the problem of elder abuse world-wide led the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), in partnership with organisations such as HelpAge International, to launch the Global Response Against Elder Abuse Project in 2001. Missing Voices reports the first stage of the project and summarises the findings from studies in eight countries across the world. This explored the perceptions of elder abuse by older people and primary health care workers through the use of focus groups. The individual reports (also available from the WHO website, translated into English) are variable in style and structure and each has material which is associated with the country’s particular cultural and political environment. However, common themes emerge, which are succinctly summarised in the main report. The strongest theme is governments’ failure to fulfil their obligations towards older adults through provision of adequate public services and income (defined in the Argentinian report as ‘societal abuse’). In Kenya, Lebanon and

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The Journal of Adult Protection – Emerald Publishing

Published: Nov 1, 2002

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