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Elder Abuse and Neglect a New Research Topic
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA. 2002;288:2254-2256.
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When Sidney Stahl, PhD, sat down to examine priorities for the National Institute on Aging's (NIA) first major initiative to fund research on elder abuse and neglect, his work seemed finished before it had begun. "I started scrounging the literature for data, and after a day I was done," recalls Stahl, the NIA's chief of behavioral medicine. "It was tragic. Much of the information that exists in the literature is anecdotal, as opposed to scientific. I was having trouble making decisions about where to go with this research."
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In the last couple of years, with help from the National Research Council (NRC), Stahl has come up with a short list of investigators with the scientific know-how to tackle major issues surrounding elder abuse and neglect. "We're talking to the major players," says Stahl. By the end of the current fiscal year, the NIA will . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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