Explain the perpetrator characteristics of sexual abuse against the older adult
What will be an ideal response?
Researchers of the 2009 National Elder Mistreatment Study documented the role of substance abuse in older adult victimization found that one fifth of the known offenders have been identified as abusing substances around the time of emotional mistreatment of older adults. Perpetrators of physical assault are even more likely to be abusing substances at the time of assault, 50% had a substance abuse problem at the time of the abuse. Where the perpetrator was known in cases of sexual abuse against an older adult, over 28% had substance abuse problems.
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a. True b. False
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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