Nowadays elderly abuse is increasing quite fast. There are more and more people who commit acts of violence against the elderly and who do not respect them.
So the elderly abuse is an act when someone causes harm or distress to an old person. It is really cruel act against people who can not defend themselves from abusers because most of the elderly are too weak to do it. Elderly abuse is a prevalent problem because mental or physical impairment of elderly may prevent victim from reporting the problem. Usually abusers are relatives who are responsible for caring an elderly person. Also victims can be social workers, friends, neighbors or volunteers.
There are a lot of types of elderly abuse. The first, the most common, is financial exploitation. It is illegal use of person's property, money and pension. The second one is psychological abuse - it is shouting, ignoring, blaming, threatening and etc. The third, of most common, is physical abuse. This includes any type of action that creates bodily harm or distress, for example, hitting, punching, pushing, giving too much medication or wrong medication. There are also other types of abuse like neglect, sexual abuse, self neglect but these types are not as common as the first three.
To sum up, the elderly abuse is a problem which has to be resolved as fast as possible because there are a lot of the elderly who need help, who suffer from their own children, partners.
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Elder Abuse is difficult to spot, however when it is found it should be heavily punished!! Families put faith in people to look after the older relatives and people tackle advantage of the persons frail nature and trust put in them by the family! if someone is found guilty of elder abusethey should punishable in the same fashion a doctor is for medical negligence, however it should be remembered that elderly abuse is intentional and maliciously carried out!
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