The issue however, is that at least in Ontario, we screen women and girls for domestic violence and not boys and men.  This includes elder abuse.  Further, the studies indicate that when serious injury is measured it is about 60-40 between women and men.  The likelyhood of a woman reporting a DV incident is much higher than men.  Part of the issue in terms of death is reactive violence - that is the same notion for men as it is for women, that is a person pushed to the point of explosion.  It is however known that a man who loses control for a couple of seconds can generally do a lot more damage, however this does not speak to who hit whom.  It also goes to the notion, that if these abused men had somewhere to go, they might leave and not get pushed to that point.  Battered women's syndrome - without shelters is a reality for men- and the Duluth Model makes it worse.