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ANNEX 1: SCOPE OF LITERATURE REVIEW
A.1 The literature review process allows for the identification of relevant texts. The search strategy for this literature review is included within this annex. Please note that this information expands on ' Chapter 2: Methodology' within the report.
Literature review process
A.2 The aim of the research is to review the literature regarding the interventions that are effective for adults "at risk" as well as those who have been harmed. A search was performed implementing a series of word strings in various databases.
A.3 The words and phrases of interest were identified as:
- Adult "at risk"
- "Vulnerable adult" (including)
- Incapacity
- Disability
- Mental Disorder
- Mental Health
- Learning disability
- Complex disability
- Elder mistreatment
- Old age abuse
- Illness
- Infirmity
- Ageing
- Elder abuse
- Carers (including)
- Formal
- Informal
- Relative/Family member
- Service Users
- Services (including)
- In-care settings
- Institutional care
- Respite care
- Domiciliary care
- In-patient care
- Residential care
- Home care
- Voluntary services
- Nursing home care
- Care at home
- Day care
- Day services
- Exploitation (including)
- Long-term abuse
- Short term abuse
- Abuse/ Harm (including)
- Psychological
- Physical
- Financial
- Material
- Sexual
- Exploitation
- Domestic violence
- Domestic abuse
- Discriminatory
- Social exclusion
- Marginalisation
- Characteristics of perpetrators
- Characteristics of victims
- Circumstances
- Conditions
- Protection
- Prevention
- Preventative strategies
- Intervention
- Support
- Counselling
- Psychotherapy
- Therapeutic
- Victim support
- Family therapy
- Relationship therapy
- Range
- Effectiveness
- Transferable
- (Also look at vulnerable adult being perpetrator of abuse towards others.)
A.4 The starting points for the literature search process were a series of primary and secondary sources from online databases, online journals, websites, libraries, journals. A search strategy was carried out, implementing the word list (see A1.3) within each of the following online sources, in addition to library collections. An alphabetical list of the online sources searched is shown below:
- Ageinfo ( CPA)
- Ageline ( AARP)
- Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts
- Blackwell synergy
- CINAHL
- Cochrane Library
- Elsevier
- Embase
- Google
- Google Scholar
- Ingenta connect
- Medline
- Palgrave
- Psycarticles
- Psychlit
- Psyc INFO
- Pubmed
- Sage
- Sociolit
- Social Care ( SCIE)
- Social Care Online
- Tandf
- Taylor & Francis
- Web of Knowledge,
- Wiley Interscience
A.5 A number of grey literature sites were also searched, including:
- DoH
- Scottish government, Scottish office website
- Welsh Assembly Gov
A.6 Specific journals were also searched. A list is shown below:
- Archives of sexual behaviour
- BJSW
- Disability and Society
- Educational gerontology
- Gerontologist
- Gerontological SW
- Harm reduction journal
- HSCC
- IFA - international federation of ageing
- Global ageing
- Learning disability journals
- JEAN
- Journal of adult protection ( JAP)
- Journal of family violence
- JSW
- Mental health journals
- Sexuality and disability journal
- Violence against women
- Vulnerable adults abstracts
A.7 In addition to the search strategy described above, snowballing techniques were used to find relevant citations and texts within existing literature to provide additional sources of information that may not have been highlighted by searches performed.
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