Accessibility of prison healthcare for elderly inmates, a qualitative assessment

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Accessibility of prison healthcare for elderly inmates, a qualitative assessment

HEIDARI, Raheleh, et al.

Abstract

Aging in custody and the rising population of elderly prisoners are creating compelling challenges for criminal justice, prison and public healthcare systems. Geriatric syndrome and higher prevalence of co-morbidities amongst older inmates result in heightened vulnerability in prison environments. Empirical research addressing older adults' access to medical care in detention is scarce; therefore, this study assessed access to medical care in prison from the perspective of older prisoners in Switzerland. We interviewed a sample of 35 older inmates (average age 61 years) on their experience of healthcare accessibility in prison; data were qualitatively analysed and major themes regarding evaluation of their access to medical services were extracted. Our findings identified three barriers to accessing health services in prison including psychological obstacles, negative consequences of healthcare utilization, and environmental hurdles. We advocate facilitating older inmates' access to medical care in order to relieve the psychological burden of seeking health services in detention and adequately informing them of their [...]

HEIDARI, Raheleh, et al . Accessibility of prison healthcare for elderly inmates, a qualitative assessment. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine , 2017, vol. 52, p. 223-228

DOI : 10.1016/j.jflm.2017.10.001 PMID : 29028567

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Corrigendum to “ Accessibility of prison healthcare for elderly inmates, a qualitative assessment ” [J Forensic Leg Med 52 (November 2017) 223 – 228]

Raheleh Heidari^a,∗, Tenzin Wangmo^a, Serena Galli^b, David M. Shaw^a, Bernice S. Elger^a,c, On behalf of the Agequake group

aInstitute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

bFaculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 61, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

cCentre for Legal Medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland

The authors regret that there is a typo in the last name of Violet Handtke. Hereby the correct spelling is Handtke. The author affiliation

of David M. Shaw was mistakenly mentioned b, it is now corrected to a.

The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2018.03.009

DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2017.10.001

Violet Handtke^aWiebke Bretschneider^aaInstitute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerlandh 0.01em?>tps://doi.org/10.1016/

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∗Corresponding author.

E-mail address:heidarir@tcd.ie(R. Heidari).

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