Legal Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 7-14 , March 2003

Elder abuse and neglect: social problems revealed from 15 autopsy cases

  • Kayoko Akaza

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
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  • Yasuo Bunai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-267-2250; fax: +81-267-2957
    • ,
  • Masatake Tsujinaka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
    • ,
  • Isao Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
    • ,
  • Atsushi Nagai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
    • ,
  • Yukiyoshi Tsukata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Bioethics and Social Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu 500-8705, Japan
    • ,
  • Isao Ohya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan

Received 10 December 2001 ,Revised 10 August 2002 ,Accepted 23 August 2002.

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