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- Relations between elder abuse, ageism and perceptions of agePublication . Lima, Margarida Pedroso de; Vergueiro, Maria Emília; António José C. A. GonzalezThe purpose of this study is to understandif the Ageismand perceptions of age of a group of elderly people is related with their experiences of being abused, mistreated or suffer from negligence. 33 older subjects were assessed with QEEA – Questions to Elicit Elder Abuse, Ageism Survey and POA – Perceptions of Aging. The findings show some evidence of the correlations between discrimination, perceptions of ageingand abuse. A prevention program designed to prevent abuse and based in active and participative methodologies– The Transparent Hands project– is presented as a tool to help and overcome the attitudinal resistances to change preconceptions of age.