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El delito contra la libertad sexual en el anciano: una realidad escondida difícil de detectar
Sexual abuse of the elderly: A hidden, difficult to detect, reality
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Maite Santurtúna,b, Francisco J. García Gutiérrezc, Gloria Agudo Cuestac, María T. Zarrabeitiad, Ana Santurtúnd,
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a Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, España
b Departamento de Enfermería, Centro Hospitalario Padre Menni, Santander, Cantabria, España
c Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses de Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, España
d Unidad de Medicina Legal y Toxicología, Departamento de Fisiología y Farmacología, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, España
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Received 15 December 2017. Accepted 05 April 2018
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El maltrato a personas mayores es un problema de salud pública; existen diversos tipos de maltrato; el abuso sexual en el anciano es uno de los menos estudiados y comúnmente no se detecta. Este trabajo presenta el caso de una paciente que fue llevada al hospital por la sospecha de que pudiera haber sido víctima de un delito contra la libertad sexual. La paciente se encontraba ingresada en una residencia geriátrica y presentaba una demencia de 10 años de evolución. En el artículo se expone la vulnerabilidad de este tipo de pacientes y las dificultades encontradas para el diagnóstico, y se reflexiona sobre la necesidad de trabajar en la prevención e intervención efectiva desde el ámbito sanitario.

Palabras clave:
Maltrato
Anciano
Libertad sexual
Indemnidad sexual
Demencia
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Abuse of the elderly is an important public health problem. There are different types of abuse, with sexual abuse being one of the least studied, and usually underdiagnosed. A forensic case-study is presented on a female patient who was taken to the hospital under the suspicion that she had have been a victim of sexual assault. The patient was admitted to a geriatric centre and had been diagnosed with senile dementia type I of 10 years onset. In this article, an analysis is carried out on the vulnerability of this kind of patient, the difficulties in diagnosis, and on the need to work on prevention and effective intervention from a health care perspective.

Keywords:
Abuse
Elderly
Sexual freedom
Sexual abuse
Dementia

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