It's a difficult question. I would always go back to at what point we're targeting the interventions. As we teach people about elder abuse across the age spectrum.... We should be starting to teach people in grade school, to be honest with you, from my perspective.
In that case, yes, I believe there needs to be attention paid to gender-based differences. We know that women still do not often occupy positions of power in their family circumstances, in society as a whole, or in their workplaces. Understanding that power imbalance at a young age is quite important. We also know that we need to address cultural differences and the way that various cultures perceive women and their place in society. That's important.
I would see that as the main emphasis for gender-based differences in teaching about elder abuse. However, in settings where our elders are vulnerable to elder abuse, I cannot personally see a difference with health care providers around gender-based differences. We need to teach health care providers a general way of being, a respectful way of being--in nursing, we would say a caring way of being--but also, certainly, a human way of being. To me, those principles are universal.