Model of Domestic Abuse Against Older Women and Barriers to Seeking Help
| 2006-WG-BX-0008 | $469,590 |
| Principal Investigator: | Frederick L. Newman |
| Title: | Model of Domestic Abuse Against Older Women and Barriers to Seeking Help |
| Monitor: | Leora Rosen |
| The study focuses on how older women representing Hispanic, African-American non-Hispanic, and white non-Hispanic race/ethnicities in the community experience and internalize domestic abuse, and tests a Barriers to Help-Seeking (BHS) model based on results of an earlier study and two existing models, the Theoretical Model of Elder Mistreatment (National Research Council, 2003) and the Grigsby & Hartman Model (1997). Face-to-face interviews will be used to describe the relationship between an abuser's behaviors and an elder victim's perceptions of barriers to help-seeking and the relationships between barriers to help-seeking and abusive behaviors. | |
Date Entered: November 29, 2007