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Chapter 5: Elder Abuse in the Context of Health Services in Mexico

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The chapter analyzes family and institutional mistreatment of older people in Mexico. The research recorvers the theoretical approaches to mistreatment, as well as the national and international regulatory framework for its regulation. In the field work, semi-structured interviews were carried out with healthcare professionals (doctors and nurses), elderly people and family members in public intitutions across the country. Research shows that older people continue to be an unprotected  social group in terms of mistreatment. Situation that not only causes harm to the individual who suffers it, but also to the entire social fabric. 

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    All quotations from participants are translated from Spanish.

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Correspondence to María Guadalupe Ruelas-González .

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Ruelas-González, M.G., Saturno-Hernández, P.J., de Lourdes Vargas Santillan, M., Romero, Y.H., Ramírez-Villalobos, D. (2023). Chapter 5: Elder Abuse in the Context of Health Services in Mexico. In: Teaster, P.B., Anetzberger, G.J., Podnieks, E. (eds) The Worldwide Face of Elder Abuse. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34888-4_9

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