Exploring the mistreatment of Native elders

描述（由申请人提供）：老年人虐待是大大不足的探索，尽管其非常重要的快速增长的老年人口。关于美国任何人口中虐待老年人的患病率/发病率知之甚少，更不用说美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/ANs）了。关于这一群体中虐待老年人的少数研究表明，这种现象可能很普遍，但对其患病率/发病率的严格研究是非常必要的。此外，在人工智能/人工智能社区中，对虐待老年人的文化理解缺乏了解。由于构成虐待的是文化定义，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，对老年AI/AN的虐待的患病率/发生率研究进行开发工作。会议将涉及两个小组之间的合作：1）一个跨学科的研究人员团队，他们在AI/AN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）一个文化和地理上多样化的社区专家小组，他们具有土著老年人宣传和虐待预防，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的两个社区对这一现象进行试点研究奠定基础。然后，我们的试点研究经验将为最大限度地确定AI/AN中老年人虐待的现象和程度提供一系列建议。该项目的三个具体目标是：1）探讨对农村和城市土著老年人中虐待的普遍性/发生率进行研究的可行性，并确定可用于试点研究的测量方法; 2）进行一项关于流行率的试验性研究/土著老年人中虐待的发生率，以评估在这方面衡量虐待的几种方法的有用性和有效性。人口;以及3）利用该项目产生的信息为未来的研究提出建议，估计AI/AN社区中虐待老年人的流行率/发生率。研究人员和社区专家之间的合作将确保对土著老年人虐待的流行率/发生率进行研究的科学方法将立足于当地的现实。这个项目是一个独特的机会，探索流行/发病率和文化现象学（即，在少数群体中，这种现象很少受到审查。洛里·杰维斯项目叙述。 这个项目提供了一个前所未有的机会，探索美国印第安人和阿拉斯加土著老人的虐待，一个几乎一无所知的话题。它将采用联合收割机的方法，将社区专家小组（由土著老年人倡导者、老年人保护和防止虐待专家组成）的实际经验与具有与这一群体合作历史的研究人员的科学专门知识相结合。在其高潮，该项目将产生一系列的建议，为未来的研究流行/发生率的美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加土著老人虐待，是翔实的，可用的，并在现实生活中的经验为基础。

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.