These training slides from a workshop by API-GBV analyzes elder abuse in the context of abuse over the lifecourse (see the Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence). It enumerates several types of abuses API elders may face, including forced labor and emotional neglect, and offers recommendations for culturally-specific interventions.
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AANHPI Elder Safety and Wellness Case Studies
In partnership with the National Health Resource Center on DV, Futures Without Violence, API-GBV released this set of five case scenarios. Each case scenario includes reflection questions and discussion points on how to support an elder and their family, and they...
AANHPI Elder Safety & Wellness: Strengths, Challenges, & Opportunities
This resource aims to illuminate some of the barriers faced by AANHPI elders, as well as recommendations for intervention and prevention. These learnings and recommendations were collectively developed by a multi-disciplinary think tank on elder safety and wellness...
Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence
The Lifetime Spiral reveals patterns of victimization by enumerating the types of violence, vulnerabilities, and harms women and girls face.
Survivors in the Margins: The Invisibility of Violence Against Older Women, 2015
Crockett C, Brandl B, & Dabby C. 2015. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. 27(4-5): 291-302.
This article explores how the lack of gender analysis in the elder abuse field increases older survivors’ invisibility and calls for applying a lifespan approach to abuse.
by Chic Dabby
API-GBV
2015