Psychiatric News (5/20) reports, “The stresses on older people and their caregivers associated with COVID-19 – social isolation, financial hardship, difficulties accessing needed care and supplies, and anxiety about infection – may increase the risk of elder abuse,” experts concluded in an article published online May 18 in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “How to Identify, Help Older People in Potentially Abusive Situations, Psychiatric News , May 20, 2020