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Understanding Elder Abuse in Minority Populations. Toshio Tatara (Ed.). Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel. 1998. 220 pp. ISBN 0-87630-919-- 8. $64.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
For many years, the victims of elder abuse remained hidden from view as studies of spouse and child abuse dominated the research landscape on family violence. Although elder abuse emerged as part of the mainstream research on family violence during the 1980s, the experience of elders of color continued to remain in the background. The purpose of this edited volume is to bring to the foreground the experiences of abused elderly persons of color, as told from the perspective of practitioners and researchers of color whose cultural sensitivities may deepen our understanding of elder mistreatment in ethnic communities.
The book is organized into five major sections with an introductory chapter providing an overview of the demography...