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No More Shame: Changing health providers recognition and response to elder abuse to reduce associated stigma

The No More Shame Study, led by Professor Bianca Brijnath at the National Ageing Research Institute with funding from the Medical Research Futures Fund, aims to address the stigma of elder abuse by improving its recognition, response, and referral by health providers.

This multi-component intervention will comprise a co-designed training program and screening tool for health providers who work with older people in hospitals. The study is an RCT with health providers and older people across 10 hospital sites in WA, VIC, SA and NSW (5 control and 5 intervention). The outcomes of the trial are significant and measurable improvements in health providers’ knowledge of elder abuse and ageist attitudes; hospitals detection and responses to elder abuse; and older people’s sense of safety, quality of life, and mental health. Dr Catriona Stevens is a CI on this study will coordinate the WA sites participating in this trial.

Funding agency

Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care through the Medical Research Future Fund, MRF2015995.

Project duration

January 2022 - December 2025

Publications

  • Cavuoto, MG., Markusevska, S., Stevens, C., Reyes, P., Renshaw, G., Peters , MD., Dow, B., Feldman, P., Gilbert, A., Manias, E., Mortimer, D., Enticott, J., Cooper, C., Antoniades, J., Appleton, B., Nakrem, S., O'Brien, M., Ostaszkiewicz, J., Eckert, M., Durston, C., Brijnath, B. (2024). The impact of elder abuse training on subacute health providers and older adults: study protocol for a randomized control trial. Trials, 25(1), Article number 338. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08160-3.
  • Brijnath, B., Cavuoto, M., Feldman, P., Dow, B., Antoniades, J., Ostaszkiewicz, J., Nakrem, S., Stevens, C., Reyes, P., Renshaw, G., Peters, MD., Gilbert, A., Manias, E., Mortimer, D., Enticott, J., Cooper, C., Durston, C., Appleton, B., O'Brien, M., Eckert, M., Markusevska, S. (2024). Codesigning for health provider training to improve detection and response to elder abuse. The Gerontologist, 2024(Article in press), 19 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae153.

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