Child and elder abuse is an unfortunate phenomena that happens in our society almost on a regular basis and sadly many times these instances of abuse go unreported. There are several reason for this, for children it may be hard to take what a child says seriously as the child may have imagined/exaggerated the situation or misunderstood what was happening at the time, the same factors tend to apply themselves to elder abuse as well, particularly of the individual has a cognitive or memory such as dementia or Alzheimer’s.
There are various risk factors that could contribute to a child or senior citizen being a victim of abuse or maltreatment, according to the Center of Disease Control children’s age is a factor as a child under the age of 4
There are various risk factors that could contribute to a child or senior citizen being a victim of abuse or maltreatment, according to the Center of Disease Control children’s age is a factor as a child under the age of 4