Family violence towards the elderly in Spain

After a brief review of key elements in the theoretical and conceptual framework about elder abuse, the methodology, main results and conclusions of a study about family violence against the elderly people are reported. Applying socio-legal analysis, some questions about the social, legal and institutional response to family elder abuse in Spain and the Comunidad Autonoma of Aragon are discussed. This is a kind of aging people's human rights violation that still remains socially hidden, understudied, and generally speaking poorly tackled in social and domestic violence prevention policies.