Violence in the family context of elderly people with physical disabilities
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2020v23i2p313-330Keywords:
Domestic violence, Exposure to violence, Mistreatment of the elderly, Elderly with Functional Disability, Elderly people.Abstract
The objective is to identify the typology and the experience of intrafamily violence suffered by elderly people with disabilities. As for the method, it is a qualitative and exploratory study. Audio-recorded interviews were conducted. The sample comprised five elderly people of both sexes, with physical disabilities. The Results show that psychological violence was present in the lives of all the elderly people interviewed. In conclusion, elderly people with disabilities are continually being exposed to violence due to the difficulty of seeing them as such and the inability to exercise their autonomy and independence due to the deficiencies that affect them.