Yes, that's definitely true.
Part of this report we did on gender-based analysis also looks at the elder abuse of men. They are also subjected to it. They also live with it. It's important to know what the differences are in terms of what kinds of interventions work best with either sex within a particular culture--there are many cultural differences in how you interact--and also within potential level of disability in which you find that senior also dealing with that issue. So you begin to see that it's a very complex, multi-layered issue. And you begin to appreciate how difficult it is to assess it, and then look for all of those potential services within a community to address it. It's very large and encompassing.
But the point of the gender-based analysis was exactly to try to distill out those specific points between men and women in terms of how they experience the issue of abuse and what interventions work best. Then you further parse that down and you begin to look at whether you are talking about the younger old or the older old. These distinctions are extremely important. What might work for a 65-year-old woman as an appropriate intervention for elder abuse may not work for an 85-year-old woman. You have to understand these nuances and differences. You also have to understand what cultural perspective they bring. What is the particular cultural context in which they live? That's extremely important. You have to understand that if you're going to engage them and gauge the community in providing those services.