Comparative Study on Subjective Experience of Elder Abuse Between Older Korean Immigrants in the United States and Older Koreans in Korea

Abstract

This study examines the prevalence of elder abuse and the relationship between sociodemographic factors and elder abuse among older Koreans in the United States and Korea. Survey data from older Koreans aged between 60 and 79 years from the two countries ( n = 480) were analyzed descriptively and in binary logistic regressions. This study found a similar prevalence of elder abuse in the two samples, with 26% of older Korean immigrants in the United States reporting abuse and 23% of older Koreans in Korea reporting abuse. However, there were significant differences in the types of emotional abuse experienced by older Koreans in both countries. Reports of some types of emotional abuse, such as 'name calling' and 'silent treatment,' were significantly higher in the United States than in Korea. These findings expand our knowledge of the experience of elder abuse among older Koreans in both countries.

Prevalence of physical violence against people in insecure migration status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…It includes statuses that have an included dimension of dependency where the immigrant spouse relies on the marital relationship in order to maintain status, such as in the case of spousal visas, exacerbated when they include a financial dependency element such as the UK's no recourse to public funds stipulation, or the US's affidavit of support requirement [36][37][38]. Nonetheless, this category can also be expanded to include other forms of domestic violence in mixed status or immigrant families such as child abuse [39,40] or elder abuse [41][42][43].…”