A research on psychological violence against the elderly found that 13% had been threatened, verbally assaulted, or insulted and humiliated once to ten times in the past 12 months.
The data is from a study developed by Ana João Santos, within the framework of the Doctoral Program in Gerontology and Geriatrics of the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), under the supervision of Óscar Ribeiro, from CINTESIS.
First reported by Agência Lusa, the information was replicated by other agencies, such as Expresso, JN, Público and SIC Notícias Online.