The implications of data collection

Building a National Picture of The Abuse of Older People: The implications of data collection.

How can better data collection practices enable us to understand and support older people? This Hourglass policy briefing papers explores the background of data collection and investigates the notion that older people are excluded from datasets. Within this piece, Hourglass champions the need for good data practice on the abuse of older people, and outlines key future policy recommendations for policymakers, legislators, and practitioners.

 

 Key Issues:

 

  • There is an absence of regular, comprehensive data on violence and abuse of older people in the UK.

 

  • The response to abuse in older age sits between the domestic abuse response, hate crime monitoring and adult safeguarding, creating a diffuse and conflicting data landscape.

 

  • The four jurisdictions of the UK have varied practice in recording data on crimes against older people.

 

  • The only national prevalence study on the abuse of older people in the UK (2007), which found evidence of huge complexity in the manifestations of abuse in later life, still has relevance for data collection today.

 

  • There is little research on the perpetrators of abuse of older people, restricting evidenced based policy making.

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