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Program Helps Older Women Victims.(domestic abuse )
2001 JUL 12 - (NewsRx Network) -- The Women's Health Program at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, Ohio, is creating a pilot program to better understand and address domestic abuse of older women, a significantly under-reported problem in the United States.
According to the 1998 report The National Elder Abuse Incidence Study by the U.S. Administration on Aging, for every one substantiated case of elder abuse, there are more than five times as many unreported incidents and older women are abused at significantly higher rates than older men.
"Domestic abuse is a widespread national problem," said Barbara Rinto, MPA, administrator of the Women's Health Program. "In the last 25 years there has been a serious attempt across this country to address the problem and there has been some real success in providing women options to enhance their safety. However, insufficient attention has been paid to older women in this situation."
According to experts, older women are reluctant to report abuse because of generational differences in values including the unacceptability of divorce and more traditional male and female roles.
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