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Partner Violence

Study Finds Many Older Women Also Victims of Partner Violence

Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 24th, 2007

About one in four women older than 65 has been the victim of physical, sexual or psychological violence at the hands of a spouse or other intimate partner, according to a study done in two northwestern states.

About 3.5 percent of the women surveyed had suffered violence in the past five years, and 2.2 percent in the past year.

“Intimate partner violence is not a problem only for younger women,” said Amy Bonomi, lead author of the study and associate professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.

The study appears in the February 2007 issue of The Gerontologist. It involved telephone interviews with...

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