Exploring the mistreatment of Native elders

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管虐待老人对迅速扩大的老年人口非常重要，但对虐待老人的研究还远远不够。人们对美国人口中老年人虐待的发生率知之甚少，更不用说美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/ANs）。关于这一群体中老年人虐待的少数现有研究表明，这种现象可能很普遍，但迫切需要对其流行/发生率进行严格的研究。此外，人们对人工智能/人工智能社区中虐待老年人的文化理解缺乏了解。由于什么构成虐待是由文化定义的，这种知识的缺乏可能会阻碍研究人员发现虐待的能力。为了解决这些差距，我们建议组建一个社区和研究网络，开展老年人工智能/人工智能受虐待的患病率/发生率研究。会议将涉及两个小组之间的合作：1)一个跨学科的研究小组，他们在人工智能/人工智能社区拥有丰富的专业知识，并在对这一人群进行流行病学研究方面有着良好的记录；2)一个文化和地理上不同的社区专家小组，他们具有土著老年人倡导和虐待预防、成人保护和各种老年人服务的背景。这些会议将为在一个农村和一个城市两个社区对这一现象进行试点研究奠定基础。然后，我们在试点研究中的经验将为最大限度地确定人工智能/人工智能网络中虐待老年人的现象和程度提供一套建议。该项目的三个具体目标是：1)探索开展农村和城市土著老年人虐待流行/发生率研究的可行性，并确定可用于试点研究的测量方法；2)开展土著老年人受虐待发生率的试点研究，以评估几种衡量土著老年人受虐待的方法的有用性和有效性；3)利用项目产生的信息为未来的研究提出建议，以估计人工智能/人工智能社区虐待老年人的流行/发生率。研究人员和社区专家之间的合作将确保开展土著老年人虐待流行/发生率研究的科学方法将以当地现实为基础。这个项目是一个独特的机会，可以探索少数民族老年人虐待的流行/发生率和文化现象学（即理解和描述的方式），这种现象很少被研究。杰维斯，洛里·L.项目叙事。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Elder mistreatment is vastly under-explored, despite its great importance to the rapidly expanding older population. Little is known about the prevalence/incidence of elder mistreatment in any U.S. population, let alone American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs).The few available studies on elder mistreatment among this group suggest that the phenomenon is likely common, but rigorous studies on its prevalence/incidence are sorely needed. Further, there is a dearth of knowledge about cultural understandings of elder mistreatment in AI/AN communities. Since what constitutes mistreatment is culturally defined, this lack of knowledge likely hinders researchers' ability to detect mistreatment. To address these gaps, we propose to assemble a community and research network to conduct developmental work on a prevalence/incidence study of the mistreatment of older AI/ANs. The meetings will involve a collaboration between two groups: 1) an interdisciplinary team of researchers with vast expertise in AI/AN communities and an established track record of conducting epidemiological studies with this population, and 2) a culturally and geographically diverse panel of Community Experts with backgrounds in Native elder advocacy and abuse prevention, adult protection, and a variety of elder services. The meetings will lay the groundwork for a pilot study of the phenomenon in two communities, one rural and one urban. Our experience with the pilot study will then inform a set of recommendations for maximally identifying the phenomenology and extent of elder mistreatment among AI/ANs. The 3 specific aims of this project are: 1) to explore the feasibility of conducting a study of the prevalence/incidence of mistreatment among rural and urban Native elders, and to identify measurement approaches that can be employed in a pilot study; 2)to conduct a pilot study of the prevalence/incidence of mistreatment among Native elders in order to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of several methods of measuring mistreatment in this population; and 3)to use the information generated by the project to develop recommendations for future research that estimates the prevalence/incidence of elder mistreatment in AI/AN communities. The collaboration between researchers and Community Experts will ensure that scientific approaches to conducting a prevalence/incidence study of Native elder mistreatment will be grounded in local realities. This project is a unique opportunity to explore the prevalence/incidence and cultural phenomenology (i.e., ways of understanding and describing) of elder mistreatment in a minority population in which this phenomenon has rarely been examined. Jervis, Lori L. Project Narrative. This project provides an unprecedented opportunity to explore the mistreatment of American Indian and Alaska Native elders, a topic about which almost nothing is known. It will utilize methods that combine the practical experience of a Community Expert Panel(comprised of Native elder advocates, elder protection, and abuse prevention experts) with the scientific expertise of researchers with established histories working with this population. At its culmination, the project will produce aseries of recommendations for future research on the prevalence/incidence of American Indian and Alaska Native elder mistreatment that are informative, useable, and grounded in real-life experience.