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Elder Abuse
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Also known as elder mistreatment, senior abuse, abuse in later life, abuse of older
adults, or abuse of older men/women, elder abuse refers to a “single or repeated commission
of inappropriate or omission of appropriate action that can occur to older persons in any
relationship, in which trust is expected
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An act is considered as an elder abuse if it comes
from such a family member as spouse, partner or family members, from whom the older
person expects good relationship
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Elder abuse has continued to affect many people around
the world, leading the WHO declaring it a major concern (World Health Organization, 2016)
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As well, the paper discusses the impact of elder abuse on aged care
policy overall and aged care delivery at the ‘coal face’
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(Beach, p232) notes that the types of abuses meted on elder members of

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society are distributed on different bases ranging from economic differences, social
perceptions, and people’s cultures, among other issues
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As such there are several types of elder abuse
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This type of abuse takes many
forms and it includes slaps, punches, burns, pushes kicks restrains and false imprisonment of
older people
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Such a type of abuse is
common in communities where cultures do not impose strong laws on respecting the older
people
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This includes
humiliation, ridicule, unending criticisms, accusation, and unnecessary and hurting blames
that are directed to the older people
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This abuse is
prevalent in communities or families where the elderly are considered to be useless to the
family
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This involves the act of coercing the elderly people into
sexual activities in which they are not willing to participate
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Such an abuse has
been known to be committed to elderly people that are not in a condition in which they may
not be able to give consent, such as dementia (Beach, p230)
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Such acts are mostly aimed at extorting the older people into
allowing some actions, or giving out some critical information
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Closely related to this form of abuse is abandonment
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Lastly, there is self-neglect, which is the least common type of abuse
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Such self-neglect can cause them to fall sick, get injured or die
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However, even able adults sometimes
deny themselves of basic necessities with the hope of attracting the attention of close
relatives, if the old people notice some other forms of abuse, such as neglect, psychological
abuse and other harmful acts
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One such effect is failure of the
elderly to function normally
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Secondly, the abused people may have worsened psychological and mental
failure, especially they get psychologically abused (Yunus, p206)
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Moreover, some people, especially those who are neglected may develop worse
collaterally occurring complications such as bedsores, which further worsen their health and
cause them to die an undignified death
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In most cases, the perpetrators of such acts are individuals that
have a history f drug abuse, or those with issues of specific concern
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Moreover, (Storey, 50) suggests that over 35% of abuses are committed by
mentally ill individuals
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For
example, some abusers take advantage of older people by first grooming them into thinking
that they, the abusers are worth of trust
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This is especially in cases where the perpetrators hope that
they can gain control of the polder people’s properties
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For
example in the paid care situations, older people can be abused for several reasons
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Such abuses can be associated with insufficient
training, support and resources to enable the care givers to offer quality services to the
elderly
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Moreover, some home-based caregivers may turn against
the elderly people and abuse them
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Notable Statistics on Elder Abuse

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In general, research into elder abuse is insufficient and so are the statistics on elder
abuse
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However, in the recent past, there has interest in the issue has begun to get
prominence, and the nature and extent of elder abuse is now aa major area of study
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As such, there are varied findings on the subject
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One study was conducted in Canada, and it gives critical information on the extent
and nature of elder abuse in the country
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He observed that of the elder abuses in the
country, abuse n women accounted for at least 65% of all cases
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As well, based on findings from Action on
Elder Abuse helpline in the United Kingdom, elder abuse increases with age (Penhale, p320)
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Moreover, the
research showed that most of the abuses, over 50%, were committed by spouses
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Besides, according to the findings, 65% of the abuse is
from family members, 22% from residential caregivers and 5% from hospital based
caregivers
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Of the people that were sampled, 60% were psychologically abused, 41% financially abused
and 12% physically abused
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Regarding the source of abuse, at least 70% of the abuse incidents were from family
members, with the rest being spouses and caregivers
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Implication for Practice on Elder Abuse
It is clear that elder abuse is a major concern around the world
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Several steps can be
taken to handle the situation, yet several barriers make it even harder
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Several conditions and circumstances are making it harder for research to be
conducted and therefore obtain the prerequisite data
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Most of the cases happen at the elder persons’
homes, by their family members, mostly sons and daughters of those that are abused (Rosen,
p440)
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Such study will be important in
making it possible for ore research to be conducted
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For example, where
there is clear legislation on children protection, with consequences for child abuse clearly
stated, many authorities are silent on elder abuse
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As a consequence, many of the caregivers end up mistreating
the elderly without both deliberately and unknowingly (Özcan, p180)
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As such, it is important that studies be carried out establish what fraction of caregivers are
qualified to handle the elderly, and what qualifications they have
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Third, there is disagreement on what to consider elder abuse
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As well, psychological abuse is not
quantifiable, as there are different standards for establishing what is to be considered abusive
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As such, there
is need to carry out studies that are aimed at coming up with standards for identifying abuse
when they occur
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Such frameworks facilitate legislation on elder abuse
and make it possible to punish offenders, hence reducing the incidents and cases surrounding
elder abuse
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Some
of the notable types that have been recorded include psychological, physical, and sexual
abuse on the elderly
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Research shows that most of the abused are elderly women representing over
70% of the cases
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However it is worthy to note that these statistics are

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collected amid a lot of difficulty, hence the insufficiency of data on the world trends in elder
abuse
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One of the factors is the fact that there is
no conventional understanding of the nature of elder abuse
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Secondly,
authorities are reluctant to legislate on elder abuse, giving room for most of the cases to be
hidden
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As such, as Implication for practice on elder abuse, there is
need to have these issue addressed by studying them more keenly than is the status currently
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Hall, Y
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A focus group study of nursing home
leaders’ perceptions of elder abuse and neglect
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Özcan, N
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Reciprocal abuse: Elder neglect and
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Penhale, B
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Podnieks, E
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Wangmo, T
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Yunus, R
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Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 20(2), 197213

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