To report or not to report: physicians' response to elder abuse.

Abstract

Abuse of the elderly is not a new phenomenon. Historians and sociologists have frequently refuted the myth that harmonious multi-generational family living was the norm (Hendes, 1987: 966). [1] In preindustrial Europe, it was common practice for rural peasants to retain the bulk of their property rights almost until the time of their death. Besides property rights, these rights included the right4 'of the elder parent to continue to sit at the family table or to use the front door of the house'' (Rosen mayr, 1984). Before 1800 in England, eighty percent of all persons 60 years of age and older were heading their own households (Shanas, 1979) because there was a great tendency to preserve one's own well being. In fact, at no time in western civilization was the multi-generational household the norm.

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