General Article Over 200,000 elderly people experienced domestic abuse in 2017/18

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By Abbas Panjwani

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“200,000 elderly are abused by partners”

Daily Mail print edition (p24), 2 October 2019

On Wednesday, Age UK released findings that at least 200,000 people aged 60 to 74 experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in 2017/18.

In its coverage of the story, the Daily Mail’s print headline claimed that 200,000 elderly people were abused ‘by partners’.

This is not what Age UK’s report says. Age UK looked at data from the Office for National Statistics’ Crime Survey f...

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