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AIM: The COVID-19 outbreak is likely to affect both the occurrence and the reporting of abuse or neglect in vulnerable adults in a variety of ways. This study aims to explore such effects based on the alerts reported to the national system dedicated to these situations by the Ministry of Solidarity and Health in France. METHOD: The main characteristics of the situations of abuse or neglect (age and gender of the victims, main type of abuse or neglect, persons considered as responsible, place of occurrence) reported to the national system from March to December 2020, since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, have been compared to those observed during the same months from 2017 to 2019. RESULTS: In 2019-20, abuses or neglects in nursing homes decreased (-111 or -8%), during 3-months, while those reported in domestic situations increased slightly (+50 or +1%), despite a short decline at the beginning of the epidemic. The situations reported during the epidemic as compared to those of the three previous years affected more often women, and less often involved persons other than families or professionals. Violations of rights, and psychological abuses have been more frequent, financial abuses and neglects have been less frequent since the beginning of the outbreak.
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COVID-19 , Abuso de Idosos , Epidemias , Adulto , Idoso , COVID-19/epidemiologia , Abuso de Idosos/psicologia , Feminino , França/epidemiologia , Humanos , Casas de SaúdeRESUMO
With the ageing of the population, dementia has become a public healthcare priority. A network designed to help the families of patients suffering from dementia on a medical as well as a social and psychological level has been set up. This structure has been developed in close coordination with community practitioners and physicians and in line with the latest recommendations in particular with regard to ethics. Its first three years of existence confirm the importance of this type of approach which complements the care provided by hospitals.
