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Eligible participants disclosed elder abuse within the prior 12 months and took part in semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted between April and November 2024, followed by thematic analysis. 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E-mail: [b.brijnath@latrobe.edu.au](b.brijnath@latrobe.edu.au)[ ](b.brijnath@latrobe.edu.au)[Decision Editor:](Decision Editor: Kate de Medeiros)[ Kate de Medeiros](Decision Editor: Kate de Medeiros), PhD, FGSA (Social Sciences Section)  \nAbstract  \nObjectives: We investigated the help-seeking behaviors of older Australian women who experienced elder abuse.  \nMethods: Participants were purposively recruited from the longitudinal Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy cohort. Adults 60 years and older who self-reported experiencing elder abuse within the past 12 months were eligible to participate in the study. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted between April and November 2024. Data were thematically analyzed.  \nResults: There were 17 participants (mean age 65.8, SD 4. 5) . All were Caucasian, healthy, cognitively intact, and independent. Thirteen (76 . 5%) had incomes \u003C$35,000 . Eleven (64 .7%) did not seek help, citing stigma, victim-blaming, and feelings of shame as major deterrents. Despite this, many expressed a desire for their perpetrators to receive support, particularly for mental health and addiction issues. When formal interventions were accessed, improvements were noted in the perpetrator’s behavior. However, victims generally saw limited benefit in engaging with services such as mental health care, police, helplines, or respite care for themselves, preferring to self-manage their abuse rather than rely on formal or informal support.  \nDiscussion: The consequences of elder abuse are often endured, and help is rarely sought. To change this, comprehensive responses are needed to address perpetrator behavior, the underlying stigma of elder abuse, improve service response, and harness the role of informal supporters to enable access to formal services.  \nKeywords: Interviews, Relationships, Services, Violence  \nElder abuse is associated with poorer physical and mental health, substance dependence, social isolation, and increased risk of suicide (Acierno et al., 2017; Folorunsho & Okyere, 2025; Yunus et al., 2019) . Despite these significant impacts, many older adults may not seek help by disclosing their experiences, either informally to a family member or formally to a professional, or by filing an official report (Qu et al., 2021) . Lack of help-seeking may be because older adults do not recognize their experiences as abuse, feel stigma or shame, fear retaliation from the perpetrator, fear losing their relationship with the perpetrator, and/or are concerned about the consequences for the perpetrator, especially if the perpetrator is a family member (Dow et al., 2020) . Other barriers include limited awareness by older people of the specialist services available to them and limited awareness by frontline staff (e.g., in emergency, health, aged care, and finance sectors) of how to recognize and respond to elder abuse (Dow et al., 2020; Motamedi et al.","cbCaik3zMPe3zAmn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik3zMPe3zAmn","pdf",926121,"English","# Abstract\n## Objectives\n## Methods\n## Results\n## Discussion\n## Keywords","[{\"question\":\"What is the study’s main objective?\",\"answer\":\"The study investigates help-seeking behaviors among older Australian women who experienced elder abuse.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants recruited and what data were collected?\",\"answer\":\"Participants were purposively recruited from the Mater–University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy cohort. 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