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(2) A child’s exposure to the father abusing the mother is the strongest risk factor for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next. – Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the Family, APA, 1996

(3) Results from an Elder Abuse Experiment in New York, NIJ, National Institute of Justice

(4) Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects, Therese Zink, Saundra Regan, C. Jeffrey Jacobson, Jr., Stephanie Pabst, University of Cincinnati. Violence against Women, Vol 9, No 12, December 2003, 1429-1441 (5) Prevalence of domestic abuse in community practice and rate of physician inquiry. Hamburger LK, Saunders, DG, Hover M. , Fam Med 1992;24:283.

(6) a. The Associations between Health and Domestic Violence in Older Women: Results of a Pilot Study, Charles P. Mouton, M.D., M.S., Susan Rovi, Ph.D., Kathy Furniss, R.N., & Norman L. Lasser, M.D., Ph.D. , Journal of Women’s Health & Gender-Based Medicine9:9:1999

   b. Prevalence and 3-Year Incidence of Abuse Among Postmenopausal Women Mouton et al. Am J Public Health.2004; 94: 605-612.

(7) Unmet needs of older women in a clinic population: The discovery of possible long-term sequelae of domestic violence, B. H. Wolkenstein, L. Sterman , Professional Psychology, 1998.

(8) Physical Health Consequences of Physical and Psychological Intimate Partner Violence

Ann L. Coker, PhD; Paige H. Smith, PhD, MSPH; Lesa Bethea, MD; Melissa R. King, MSPH; Robert E. McKeown, PhD  Arch Fam Med. 2000;9:451-457.

(9) Intimate Partner Violence and Physical Health Consequences, Jacquelyn Campbell; Alison Snow Jones; Jacqueline Dienemann; Joan Kub; Janet Schollenberger; Patricia O'Campo; Andrea Carlson Gielen; Clifford Wynne, Archives of Internal Medicine, May 2002; 162: 1157 - 1163.

(10) Violence and People with Disabilities: A Review of the Literature.

(11) National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse