371,900 people aged over 66 in the UK suffered abuse! The figures were compiled by the House of Commons library by extrapolating from a survey of 2,000 people who live in their own homes first carried out in 2007 by researchers at the National Centre for Social Research and King's College London. They found that the majority of abusers, 53%, were living in the respondent's house at the time of the abuse. Of those, 65% of perpetrators were recorded as having committed physical, psychological or sexual abuse!
The abuse figures are all the more alarming because they exclude care home residents and people suffering from dementia who live in the community.
Source: elderly abuse
The abuse figures are all the more alarming because they exclude care home residents and people suffering from dementia who live in the community.
Source: elderly abuse
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