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Open research questions in Elder Abuse and Neglect

209 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,952 Elder Abuse and Neglect papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The study notes that elder abuse is a complex and intersectional issue. The study highlights the need for multidisciplinary preventive frameworks to address elder abuse.

    Correlates of Elder Abuse in São Paulo, Brazil: The Roles of Age, Depression, and Religion · 2026 · DOI

  • The study used a cross-sectional design, - The sample was limited to community-dwelling older adults in São Paulo, - The study did not assess sexual abuse, systemic neglect, and self-neglect

    Correlates of Elder Abuse in São Paulo, Brazil: The Roles of Age, Depression, and Religion · 2026 · DOI

  • Utilizing other social media platforms to examine public attitudes toward EFFE, - Examining the effectiveness of different interventions in preventing EFFE

    Behind Closed Doors, in Public View: Attitudes Toward Elder Family Financial Exploitation Based on Social Media · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of understanding of public attitudes toward EFFE, which can inform help-seeking and stakeholder engagement. Prior studies have not included the public domain as a constitutive part in the awareness of EFFE. There is a need to examine the nature of public discourse about EFFE using NLP methods.

    Behind Closed Doors, in Public View: Attitudes Toward Elder Family Financial Exploitation Based on Social Media · 2026 · DOI

  • Little is known about how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) adults experience these processes, but a range of factors may place them at greater risk of abuse, particularly due to hostility, discrimination, and inequalities.

    ‘Of course we knew, but we didn’t talk about it’: Valuing LGBTQ+ lives in safeguarding adults · 2026 · DOI

  • Abstract Background and Objectives Financial abuse is a prevalent yet underreported form of elder abuse with serious health and economic consequences.

    Relationship Quality Trajectories and Financial Abuse Among Older Adults · 2026 · DOI

  • CONCLUSIONS: Financial decision-making power is a significant and potentially modifiable factor associated with mental health among older adults, representing an underexplored pathway for promoting healthy aging, with effects partially mediated through ADL and leisure engagement.

    Financial decision-making power and mental well-being in older adults: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study in China · 2026 · DOI

  • However, the underlying pathways linking household financial decision-making power to mental health remain underexplored in population-based studies.

    Financial decision-making power and mental well-being in older adults: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study in China · 2026 · DOI

  • Elder abuse thus represents a critical yet under recognized public health challenge that undermines the dignity, health, and quality of life of older adults.

    Digital health in elder abuse: a scoping review and conceptual model · 2026 · DOI

  • The association between receiving financial support and the inability to carry out activities in quantitative studies is rarely reported in the literature.

    Association between financial social support and functional disability among older adults: analysis of the ELSI-Brazil · 2025 · DOI

  • In Lebanon, limited data on its prevalence and risk factors necessitate further investigation.

    Elder abuse in Lebanese primary care: prevalence and predictors from a cross-sectional study · 2025 · DOI

  • Changes in demography in developing countries haves led to new issues among older rural populations, such as self-neglect which is under researched.

    Nature, prevalence, and risk factors for self-neglect among older people: a pilot study from Vellore, South India · 2024 · DOI

  • However, little is known about the normative standards that are effective in practice in everyday care when dealing with challenging behaviour.

    “Challenging behavior” in dementia care: ethical complications of a well-intentioned concept · 2024 · DOI

  • Further research is recommended to enhance our understanding of such abuse and should include other approaches measuring the proportion of relative-to-resident abuse, as relying solely on staff observations is insufficient for determining the prevalence in this case.

    Relative-to-resident abuse in Norwegian nursing homes: a cross-sectional exploratory study · 2024 · DOI

  • Despite the growing interest in elder abuse in nursing homes, most studies have concentrated on the abuse perpetrated by nursing staff or co-residents, but few studies have explored the abuse that relatives may perpetrate.

    Relative-to-resident abuse in Norwegian nursing homes: a cross-sectional exploratory study · 2024 · DOI

  • Further research into the prevention of ACEs and breaking these cycles of violence is warranted.

    Intergenerational Chain of Violence, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Elder Abuse Perpetration · 2024 · DOI

  • However, the association between ACEs and elder abuse perpetration has not been fully examined.

    Intergenerational Chain of Violence, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Elder Abuse Perpetration · 2024 · DOI

  • The study identifies technical hyper-vulnerability and pressure within the intra-family context as critical challenges faced by the elderly. The study highlights the challenge of lack of financial and digital literacy among the elderly.

    Gestão financeira: análise do comportamento financeiro e da propensão ao endividamento entre idosos. · 2026 · DOI

  • The study has a small sample size, with only five idosos interviewed. The study is limited to the context of São Luís -MA.

    Gestão financeira: análise do comportamento financeiro e da propensão ao endividamento entre idosos. · 2026 · DOI

  • The study notes that mistreatment remains poorly recognized by clinicians. The compounding effects of multisensory loss can make it difficult to identify and address elder mistreatment. The study had to account for differences in the multisensory impairment measure across rounds of data collection.

    Sensory Impairment and Risk of Elder Mistreatment in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults · 2026 · DOI

  • Underreporting and inaccurate reporting of financial exploitation in older adults. Low base rates of financial exploitation. The need for a validated measure of financial exploitation vulnerability in Hebrew.

    Evaluating the Hebrew version of the financial exploitation vulnerability scale · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate the use of the FEVS-SF in different populations and settings. Future research should examine the relationship between FEVS-SF scores and actual financial exploitation outcomes. Future research should develop and test interventions to prevent financial exploitation based on the FEVS-SF.

    Evaluating the Hebrew version of the financial exploitation vulnerability scale · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of the broader patterns that shape vulnerability to elder abuse. The need to examine elder abuse through a life-course perspective. The importance of understanding the lifelong continuum of family violence that contributes to elder abuse.

    “How did I get here?”: a qualitative life-course analysis of Australian women’s experiences of elder abuse · 2026 · DOI

  • (B recommendation) The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for caregiver abuse and neglect in older or vulnerable adults.

    Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults · 2025 · DOI

  • Limited evidence suggested that home visiting and behavioral counseling interventions addressing multiple risk factors may lead to reduced IPV among pregnant or postpartum women.

    Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and for Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults · 2025 · DOI

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