Abuse in the Elderly-Cost Driver in a Health Care System?

Affiliations

• ¹ 1 Department of Health Management, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences , Kaunas, Lithuania .
• ² 2 Health Service Management Department, Centre for Health Innovation, School of Medicine, Griffith University , Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia .
• ³ 3 Department of Public Health, University of Emden , Emden, Germany .
• ⁴ 4 Brandeis University , Waltham, Massachusetts.
• ⁵ 5 Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Aging, Italian National Institute of Health and Science on Aging (INRCA) , Ancona, Italy .
• ⁶ 6 Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), University of Granada , Granada, Spain .
• ⁷ 7 Department of Sociology, National School of Public Health , Athens, Greece .
• ⁸ 8 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto , Porto, Portugal .
• ⁹ 9 Department of Health Sciences, Section of Public Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University , Sundsvall, Sweden .