Alvarez CY

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

During the decade of the 60´s of the last century, the subject related to the children and women harassment was gaining a fair space in the social conscience. However, harassment to old people is less visible, for it takes place behind doors, and either the victim or the victimizer keep the secret, and so this topic started to be dealt with more cautiously when it comes to old people in the last twenty years. Violence to old people is not a new phenomenon, it has always existed within society, and it can be compared to an iceberg for each known case, there are a thousand that a hidden so that the real incidence in unknown. In this paper, we intend to deal with the study of the harassment to old people within their families, because we consider that being old is already an economical, as well as a health disadvantage, they are vulnerable to receive a bad treatment. The old people of our sample are able to globally conceptualize harassment, and in particular toward them. Harassment toward female old people had a higher level than that to the male section. The most experienced kind of harassment was “lack of respect”.