scholarly journals Successful Informal Help-Seeking and Resolution of Elder Family Financial Exploitation: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 869-870
Author(s):  
Tina Kilaberia ◽  
Marlene Stum
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
Family Based

Abstract Effective interventions are needed to address elder family financial exploitation (EFFE), one of the most prevalent types of elder abuse globally. This poster examines the unique and critical help-seeking role informal family support can play when faced with EFFE. We present a holistic case study that offers an understanding of one family’s successful help-seeking and resolution of the EFFE situation. The family drew on internal family and community supports and did not seek formal elder abuse services. The case stood out as unique relative to 23 family’s help-seeking attempts in a larger study of the meaning and experience of EFFE from the perspective of concerned family members (non-abusing/non-victims). The case summary and analysis are based on an in-depth interview narrative reflecting the subjective experience of a concerned family member who was directly involved in the EFFE situation (in-law relative to both the older victim and the perpetrator). Study findings reveal 5 interwoven themes related to help-seeking processes and outcomes: 1) honoring the victim’s wishes, 2) providing support and accountability for perpetrator, 3) restoring family relationships and functioning, 4) maintaining internal (family-based) control, and 5) engaging in family problem solving processes. The family’s help-seeking demonstrated three distinctive features: a) embracing their informal social support role, b) the interdependence of family members, and c) restorative justice principles. The findings raise questions about broadening the scope and continuum of EFFE intervention research and practices to recognize and support informal social intervention.

scholarly journals The Critical Help-Seeking Role of Family, Friends, and Neighbors in the Lives of Elder Abuse Victims

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 628-628
Author(s):  
Marlene Stum ◽  
David Burnes
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Family Members ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Current State ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Elder abuse prevention and intervention is a complex puzzle. We focus on examining the typically invisible role, experience, and impact of nonabusing family, friends, and neighbors, or “concerned persons” in stopping elder abuse. Given the reality that most elder abuse goes unreported and unaddressed, it seems essential to understand if and how concerned persons can play a role in help-seeking for older victims, and to also understand the needs and issues faced by concerned persons as a consequence. First. Breckman presents evidence of the significant distress concerned person’s experience from knowing about elder abuse and trying to assist victims, and shares experience developing and implementing the first Elder Abuse Helpline for Concerned Persons in the U.S. Second, Fraga Dominguez et.al. present an important international perspective highlighting findings about concerned persons as users of a UK elder abuse helpline, their profile, the impact of helping, and variables relating to help-seeking. Third, Stum shares findings from a qualitative study of elder family financial exploitation related to what concerned family members were trying to accomplish by getting involved (motivating goals) and the resulting continuum of outcomes. Fourth, Kilaberia also explores the help-seeking experiences of concerned family members in elder family financial exploitation situations, specifically the range of tasks involved, and the impacts on the concerned family member’s individual health and well- The discussion led by Burnes will focus on understanding contributions of the research presented given the current state of the field, and offer suggestions for future research and intervention directions.

scholarly journals When Concerned Family Members Intervene in Elder Family Financial Exploitation: Goals and Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 628-628
Author(s):  
Marlene Stum
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Supportive Services ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Right

Abstract The role and experience of non-abusing concerned family members (CFMs) in elder family financial exploitation (EFFE) is largely unexplored. This paper examines the experience of “trying to do the right thing,” focusing on what CFM’s were trying to accomplish (motivating goals), and resulting outcomes utilizing data from a qualitative study of 28 CFMs (primarily female adult children of an older victim, and siblings of primary perpetrator). Five common goals appear to be motivating CFM involvement, driven by a priority to ensuring the victim’s quality of life, as well as the desire to honor and respect the victim’s wishes, protect the victim’s financial well-being, preserve family relationships, and deal with the perpetrator(s). CFM help-seeking resulted in a wide range of outcomes, from making a difference by connecting victims to supportive services and interrupting the financial exploitation, to mixed results, and in other cases frustration with no desirable outcomes.

The Family Relationships of Older Australians at Risk of Homelessness

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1440-1456
Author(s):  
Maree Petersen ◽  
Cameron Parsell
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
The Family

Abstract This article explores the links between older people’s homelessness and family relationships and aims to inform social work practice frameworks. Whilst breakdown in family relationships is widely recognised as linked to being at risk of homelessness, there is less understanding of the interplay of family, both positive and negative, with older people’s homelessness. Drawing on a study incorporating data mining of service records, this article aims to provide clarity on supportive and troubled family relationships and their links to housing crises as experienced by older Australians. The findings highlight a number of domains for social work practice including undertaking skilled assessments to understand the strengths and constraints experienced by families. Assessments will then inform intervention to support and provide resources to some families to prevent their older family members’ homelessness and to intervene in both a preventative and empowering way to address elder abuse. The implications for policy, in particular, the need for sectors of housing, aged care and health to intersect, are discussed.

scholarly journals Psychosocial challenges and coping strategies of caregivers with family members under palliative care in Mufakose, Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220
Author(s):  
Tsitsi Mguwata
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Care Family ◽  
Caregiver Coping ◽  
And Coping

This study sought to unearth the challenges and coping strategies of caregivers with family members under palliative care. As a high-density suburb, Mufakose is a dwelling place for the most economically marginalised members of the Zimbabwe urban dwellers. Having a family member under palliative care while being from a low social class has its ramifications and this was what the researcher sought to find out by carrying a qualitative research on six care givers (n = 6) sampled by purposive sampling. In-depth interviews guided by a self-constructed interview guide were used to collect data and thematic analysis was used for analysis. The interviews were carried out in Shona, the local language for the participants, and responses were later translated to English. The study indicated that the caregivers encountered a myriad of challenges ranging from social, economic and health problems. Disturbed sleeping patterns, weight loss, stress, inhibited social mobility, strained family relationships, limited health information about the illness, role conflict and increased financial constraints were the major cited challenges. The research established that caregivers are proactive and numerous coping strategies are used in dealing with the challenges. The coping strategies being used can be classified into appraisal-focused, problem-focused and emotion-focused. Although some coping strategies are maladaptive, most of them are quite adaptive, and with effective interventions the fortunes and lifestyle of caregivers can be overturned.   Keywords: Palliative care, family caregiver, coping strategy, challenges, home-based care.

scholarly journals Elder family financial exploitation: Family relationships are never the same

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 770-771
Author(s):  
Athena Chung Yin Chan ◽  
Marlene Stum
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Relationship Themes ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Millions of families are affected by elder family financial exploitation (EFFE), but the consequences for lifelong intergenerational family relationships and family functioning remain largely unexamined (i.e., parent/child, siblings). This study examines the consequences of experiencing EFFE on the quality of family relationships from the perspective of non-victim, non-perpetrator concerned family members (CFMs). Data from a larger EFFE mixed-methods study were utilized. A voluntary sample of 28 CFMs who had experienced EFFE participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews and brief surveys. Analysis included identifying quality of family relationship themes from data related to differences EFFE has made in their family. Participating CFMs were primarily adult children of older victims, and siblings of the primary perpetrators. The findings reflect three patterns of changes in quality of family relationships between the CFMs and other family members, including: (a) Restoring trust and recovery within the family, (b) Alliances and taking sides, and (c) Estrangement and cutoff. While families were never the same after experiencing the exploitation, for some was a healing process to accept the family situation and restore and repair trust. Redefining who would be family moving forward was a focus for some families when perpetrators and CFMs took sides and formed allies with others. In the most dramatic changes, siblings, parents and others became cutoff and isolated from other family members. While a loss of relationship quality was common, strengthening of relationships also occurred. Understanding EFFE from an ecological family systems perspective can help to inform needed EFFE interventions, both processes and outcomes.

scholarly journals ELDER ABUSE AND THE OPIOID CRISIS: PERPETRATORS WHO ARE SUBSTANCE USERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S763-S763
Author(s):  
Karen A Roberto ◽  
Pamela B Teaster
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Contextual Theory ◽  
Related Substances ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
History Of

Abstract Substance abuse, particularly the diversion/abuse of prescription drugs along with illicit opioid deviates by alleged perpetrators has been identified as is a risk factor for elder abuse. The purpose of this study was to characterize cases of elder abuse substantiated by APS in which the perpetrator used opioids and related substances. Guided by the Contextual Theory of Elder Abuse, we conducted a within-case/across-cases thematic analysis of Kentucky APS caseworkers’ notes on 40 substantiated cases of elder abuse. Financial exploitation was the most commonly identified type of abused associated with perpetrators who abuse opioids. Findings revealed that most cases of elder abuse occurred when the perpetrators’ substance abuse intersected with employment status, complex family relationships, and a history of altercations with the law. Findings provide new insights into a more elaborate conception of the ways in which the opioid epidemic is contributing to the perpetration of elder abuse today.

scholarly journals Anxious, Apart, and Attentive: A Qualitative Case Study of Overseas Filipino Workers’ Families in the time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 106648072110063
Author(s):  
Jerome Visperas Cleofas ◽  
Ma. Cristina SC. Eusebio ◽  
Ellen Joy P. Pacudan
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Overseas Filipino Workers ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Cognizant of the nature and type of family as factors that affect the experience and coping of its members, this study sought to examine the impact of the pandemic on overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) families using a qualitative instrumental case study of four OFW families. Three themes emerged from the analysis: (1) worry over the conditions of the distant family members, (2) disruptions in plans and family relationships, and (3) monitoring and caring from a distance. From these findings, it could be reflected that despite the negative effects of the pandemic, OFW families can recreate patterns over time to retain their familial relations and routines and protect members from coronavirus and its consequences.

scholarly journals Informal Supporters of Elder Abuse Victims: Who Are They and What Is Their Experience Seeking Help?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Fraga Dominguez ◽  
Jennifer E. Storey ◽  
Emily Glorney
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis study examined the characteristics and experiences of informal supporters of elder abuse victims, including family members, friends, and neighbors—referred to as concerned persons. The researchers utilized secondary data from a UK national elder abuse helpline to investigate the profile and help-seeking experiences (including the impact of helping) of concerned persons reporting abuse to the helpline. The researchers focused on one year of data (2017–2018), and 1623 records met inclusion criteria. Of these, 1352 were reported by a concerned person, and descriptive statistics are provided to describe this sample. The help-seeking experience was investigated using qualitative content analysis. Concerned persons were primarily female family members, often adult children of the victim and siblings of the perpetrator. They faced barriers to helping the victim, particularly in relation to formal services. Many also reported impact as a result of knowing about the abuse or helping the victim; particularly to their mental health and their relationship with the victim. Findings indicate that concerned persons often face substantial barriers and negative impact when they support elder abuse victims. There is a need to advance research on concerned persons and identify ways of effectively supporting them, given their essential role in facilitating elder abuse victims’ access to formal services.

scholarly journals ELDER FAMILY FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION: EXPERIENCES WITH SOCIAL SERVICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S920-S920
Author(s):  
Tina R Kilaberia ◽  
Emma Fuhrman ◽  
Marlene Stum ◽  
Iris Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Power Of Attorney ◽  
Cognitive Assessments ◽  
Undue Influence ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Elder family financial exploitation (EFFE) has attracted the attention of scholars and professionals across disciplines. This qualitative study examines the experiences of help seeking by non-perpetrator family members with a focus on the role of social services. 15 in-depth interviews were examined in which social services were mentioned as being involved. Findings provide insight into the role and involvement of social services, whether wishes expressed by victims to participants made a difference in help-seeking, and gaps experienced. Participants described social services professionals as those who (1) received reports of exploitation; (2) provided education and served as a liaison with families; (3) conducted assessments, including cognitive assessment of elders; and (4) acted as connectors to other systems. In some cases, when elders were assertive about their wishes, they had results such as reporting exploitation or transferring power of attorney to non-perpetrator family members. In other cases, elders were prevented from taking such action because of undue influence by perpetrators, disregard of their wishes, due to being uninformed, or opposing helpful family members. Participants explained experienced gaps in two ways: by attributing responsibility to social services in terms of failure to believe victims, do meaningful cognitive assessments, and navigate family dynamics. On the other hand, participants were not able to clearly ascribe responsibility, and questioned whose fault it was, suggesting opportunities for improved systems functioning. Recommendations for improving the role of social services in addressing the help-seeking needs of concerned family members coping with EFFE follow.

scholarly journals Concerned Family Members’ Help-Seeking in Elder Family Financial Exploitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 629-629
Author(s):  
Tina Kilaberia ◽  
Marlene Stum
Keyword(s):  
Help Seeking ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Management Roles ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract This paper examines non-perpetrator family members’ experience of trying to help when faced with elder family financial exploitation. Utilizing data from a qualitative study of 28 Concerned Family Members (CFMs) who were primarily adult children of older victims, findings provide evidence of the critical role CFMs play in helping the victims. Six help-seeking tasks are identified, including gathering evidence, learning new systems, and taking on money management roles. CFMs often put the victim’s health and well-being before their own, becoming secondary victims in the process. CFMs experienced a wide range of costs to their individual health and well-being, including physical, emotional, psychological, social and financial dimensions (e.g. stress, depression, inability to sleep, isolation, harassment, threats to personal safety, physical abuse, attorney and court costs, time off work). Findings have implications for supporting CFMs and addressing practical and health-related needs as secondary victims.

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