| Abstract: Women who are presently between 60 and 100 seldom speak about their
experiences of sexual violence. Yet much of their behaviour and many of their reactions
and comments observed by those working with older people provide some clues as to what
might have happened to them. Traumatic experiences such as rape in marriage, forced
prostitution, the fate of women in wartime, and also "everyday" sexual violence
have probably never been talked about or confronted. Resulting from her differentiated
diagnosis of such women during her work with old people, the author demands a change in
attitude towards old women, a change in the way they are treated - especially when they
need care, in diagnosing and treating their illnesses. |
