Envelhecimento e violência contra idosos

• Author(s): Dias, Isabel
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/8789
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Envelhecimento - Aspetos sociais; Violência doméstica; Pessoas idosas - Maus-tratos
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

This paper analyses the issue of population ageing and elderly abuse. An overview is presented of current sociological theory on ageing and an approach is developed to the difficulties found in defining the concept of elderly abuse. Abuse in the institutional setting will be particularly focussed upon.