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Postgrad Med
; 113(4): 21-4, 30, 2003 Apr.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12718233
RESUMO
As many as 2 million elderly persons in the United States experience physical, psychologic, or sexual abuse each year. Nationally spouses or intimate partners commit between 13% and 50% of elder abuse.1 Physicians can be instrumental in preventing and intervening in intimate partner violence in their elderly patients.