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This article
in the Winter 2002, Health Alert newsletter encourages health care
service providers to increase their awareness of the heightened
risk factors and unique forms of abuse to which patients with disabilities
are exposed. Definitions of abuse need to be expanded to include
the recognition that abuse by personal assistants and caregivers
constitutes a form of "intimate partner violence," argue authors
Mary Ann Curry and Fran Navarro. The article offers examples of
the different forms of abuse people with disabilities may experience
at the hands of caregivers--acts such as withholding needed medications,
delaying provision of personal care services, and restricting access
to the telephone or other modes of communication.
Type of material: article
Size/length: 5 pages
Series: Health Alert, Volume 8, Number 1 (Winter 2002)
Cost: free
Format: print document
Recommended for: Health care, domestic violence and disability service programs
Copyright: © 2002, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Available from: Family Violence Prevention Fund
383 Rhode Island Street, suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
Phone: (415) 252-8900
Web site: www.endabuse.org
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