أوجه التحديات التي تواجه المسنين في سلطنة عمان : محافظة مسقط نموذجا

Abstract EN

The aim of this study is to identify the most important patterns of violence against elderly in Muscat represented in : (physical, oral, psychological, health and social violence), a sample social survey approach was employed and a questionnaire, distributed among (2332) elderly in Muscat, was employed as a data collection tool.

results showed that oral violence is the most common pattern of violence that elderly face followed by psychological violence, and in the third place comes the physical violence then health violence and in the last place comes financial violence.

results also showed that there is an obvious impact of some independent variables like gender, age, residence place, own business, number of children and income adequacy in the probabilities of the appearance of violence against the elderly after adjusting the impact of other independent variables entered in the analysis equation.