Table 1 Demographic distribution of Elder abuse risk
From: Is multimorbidity associated with risk of elder abuse? Findings from the AHSETS study
Attributes | Elder Abuse N (%) | Total participants | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High-Risk Abuse | Low-Risk Abuse | No Abuse | |||
Age Group (Years) | > 90 | 1 (0.9 %) | 8 (2.0 %) | 3 (1.5 %) | 12 (1.7 %) |
80–89 | 17 (14.8 %) | 40 (9.8 %) | 22 (11.0 %) | 79 (10.9 %) | |
70–79 | 35 (30.4 %) | 92 (22.4 %) | 44 (22.0 %) | 171 (23.6 %) | |
60–69 | 62 (53.9 %) | 270 (65.9 %) | 131 (65.5 %) | 463 (63.9 %) | |
Gender | Male | 38 (33.0 %) | 202 (49.3 %) | 138 (69.0 %) | 378 (52.1 %) |
Female | 77 (67.0 %) | 208 (50.7 %) | 62 (31.0 %) | 347 (47.9 %) | |
Education | Illiterate | 75 (65.2 %) | 205 (50.0 %) | 66 (33.0 %) | 346 (47.7 %) |
Primary School | 37 (32.2 %) | 168 (41.0 %) | 96 (48.0 %) | 301 (41.5 %) | |
Secondary School | 1 (0.9 %) | 19 (4.6 %) | 18 (9.0 %) | 38 (5.2 %) | |
High School & Above | 2 (1.7 %) | 18 (4.4 %) | 20 (10.0 %) | 40 (5.5 %) | |
Occupation | Not Working | 101 (87.8 %) | 339 (82.7 %) | 127 (63.5 %) | 567 (78.2 %) |
Self Employed | 5 (4.3 %) | 22 (5.4 %) | 27 (5.4 %) | 54 (7.4 %) | |
Agriculture | 9 (7.8 %) | 49 (12.0 %) | 46 (23.0 %) | 104 (14.3 %) | |
Marital Status | Currently Married | 66 (57.4 %) | 266 (64.9 %) | 155 (77.5 %) | 487 (67.2 %) |
Widowed | 49(42.6 %) | 137(33.4 %) | 44(22.0 %) | 230 (31.5 %) | |
Never Married/divorced/Separated | 0 (0.0 %) | 7 (1.7 %) | 1 (2.5 %) | 8 (1.3 %) | |
Family Type | Single member | 9 (7.8 %) | 33 (8.0 %) | 11 (5.5 %) | 53 (7.3 %) |
Joint | 50 (43.5 %) | 246 (60.0 %) | 119 (59.5 %) | 415 (57.2 %) | |
Nuclear | 56 (48.7 %) | 131 (32.0 %) | 70 (35.0 %) | 257 (35.4 %) | |
No. of Elderly In Household | 1 | 57 (49.6 %) | 209 (51.0 %) | 95 (47.5 %) | 361 (49.8 %) |
2 or more | 58 (50.4 %) | 201 (49.0 %) | 105 (52.5 %) | 364 (50.2 %) | |
SES | Low | 79 (68.7 %) | 223 (54.4 %) | 87 (43.5 %) | 389 (53.7 %) |
Lower-Middle | 28 (24.3 %) | 126 (30.7 %) | 63 (31.5 %) | 217 (29.9 %) | |
Upper-Middle | 7 (6.1 %) | 52 (12.7 %) | 35 (17.5 %) | 94 (13.0 %) | |
High | 1 (0.9 %) | 9 (2.2 %) | 15 (7.5 %) | 25 (3.4 %) | |
Economic Dependency | Dependent | 95 (82.6 %) | 323 (78.8 %) | 117 (58.5 %) | 535 (73.8 %) |
Independent | 20 (17.4 %) | 87 (21.2 %) | 83 (41.5 %) | 190 (26.2 %) | |
Chronic disease | No Chronic disease | 11 (9.6 %) | 84 (20.5 %) | 37 (18.5 %) | 132 (18.2 %) |
Single Chronic disease | 36 (31.3 %) | 152 (37.1 %) | 51 (25.5 %) | 239 (33.0 %) | |
Multimorbidity | 68 (59.1 %) | 174 (42.4 %) | 112 (56.0 %) | 354 (48.8 %) | |
Functional dependency | Dependent | 57 (49.6 %) | 154 (37.6 %) | 34 (17.0 %) | 245 (33.8 %) |
Partially dependent | 31 (27.0 %) | 132 (32.2 %) | 63 (31.5 %) | 226 (31.2 %) | |
Independent | 27 (23.5 %) | 124 (30.2 %) | 103 (51.5 %) | 254 (35.0 %) | |
Total | 115 (15.9 %) | 410 (56.6 %) | 200 (27.6 %) | 725 (100 %) | |