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Trauma and Aggressive or Self-Neglecting Clients  


Author:  Loree  Cook-Daniels.


Source: Volume 09, Number 03, September/October 2006 , pp.37-38(2)




Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled

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Abstract: 

In June 2006, the Archives of Internal Medicine reported on a study of 103,344 nursing home residents that found that in the week before the assessment, 6.9% had been physically aggressive and 10.5% had been verbally abusive. This article discusses some of the ramifications of this phenomenon.

Keywords: misclassification of reactions

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