**5. Conclusions**

Overall, this study saw an increase in EA rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors such as: female gender, younger age, economic problems, living in a city, comorbidities, disability and dependence, loneliness, poor relationship with the family and lack of family, moderate and severe depression, ADL ≤ 3, and COVID-19 in a significant manner influenced the occurrence of abuses. Due to the fact that so far little data on this subject has been published, it is necessary to conduct further detailed research.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, K.F., M.B., R.S.; methodology, K.F., M.B., R. ´ S.; software, ´ R.S., K.F.; validation, K.F., M.B., A.W., R. ´ S.; formal analysis, K.F., M.B., A.W., R. ´ S.; investigation, K.F., ´ M.B., A.W.; resources, K.F.; data curation, K.F.; writing—original draft preparation, K.F., M.B., A.W., R.J., A.K., E.G.-S., K.K.-K., R.S.; writing—review and editing, K.F., A.W.; visualization, K.F., R.J., A.K., ´ E.G.-S.; supervision, M.B., K.K.-K., R.S.; project administration, K.F. All authors have read and agreed ´ to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun at Collegium Medicum of Ludwik Rydygier in Bydgoszcz (approval no. 437/2020).

**Informed Consent Statement:** Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to respondents privacy.

**Acknowledgments:** The authors thank all participants, investigators and Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru ´n.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
