OLD AGE IN TURKEY AND WORLD AND SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM OF AGING WORLD: ELDERLY ABUSE AND NEGLIGENCE

Year 2018, Issue: 1, 25 - 34, 03.12.2018

Melek Yağcı Özen

https://doi.org/10.35344/japss.518848

Abstract

Developments
in the field of medicine and technology in our day, early diagnosis and
treatment of diseases’ becoming possible thanks to these developments,
improvements in standards of living, decrease in fertility rate, extension of
expected life time result in aging of world population. Aging world population
brings problems on old age into agenda. One of these problems is elderly abuse
and negligence.

Being a new
subject matter for our country which was previously seen as a taboo throughout
the world and started being paid necessary attention nowadays, elderly abuse is
called as “all kinds of violent conducts directed to elders by relatives or
other caregivers”.

This study
aims at assessing the situation in Turkey and world on the issue of elderly
abuse and negligence and to set forth a projection concerning old age on the
basis of demographic data in Turkey. 

Keywords

Old age, elderly abuse, eldery negligence

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