Elder mistreatmeent is defnng as beining an intentition action which ause harm or creates a seriou risk of harm to a vulternable eldeerly undvual by a professional caregiver. This definition alo includes the failure of a caregiver to safisty an elderly indivaul's basi needs or to protect that eldeerldy indvaul from immenent harm. Unfrotunarly due tot he facty that many elredly indviaul who reesids in nursning home cannot speak up foror are afraid to speak up for themselves, statoistics demonstarte that elderly abuse is a common occurance in hursnng homes. Thus liess the major benefit behind conductiin unsheduled iinspections. They can help to reveal several forms of a buse that a faiciilty may attempt to hide in the cisusmatnced of a scheduled
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Addionally, due to the effects that aging has on the body, the nutrional needs of an elderly indvaul is singnaifanlty different than that of a younger indivual. As such, it is the ressponsibiltiy of the facitily's caretaker to ensure that they provide their residents with meals that provide them with an adequate amount of nutrion, based on their spefic needs. However, an unschdlung inspection can help to reveal if pateintnss with specific medical condtions are cconsuming the neccasry vitmains and mnerals they need, or if the staff is not taking each patennts specific needs into consideration when it comes to provdng them with food that contains an adeuate amount of …show more content…
As far as personal care goes, due to the fact that aging causes the body to gradually become more and more britlle, staff memebrs have to ensure that they handly their paitents in care. An unsheduled inspection can help to reveal if staff me,ebrs are in fact utilzing precatuionary steps to enusre that trhye do not inadevrantly injury the faciltiy's residents.
Supervision
While it may be etrue that alderly abuse can occur as a result of the actons of a staff memeber. Statisitcs demonstarte that a large majority of elderly idnviauls have been subjugated to some form of abuse from a nother resident. As such it is each staff memebrs repsonsbliity to suprivervisee the faiclaiity's residents to minzie the iinstances of elderly abuse as well as self-harm. Unschedules supervison can covrtly detect if staff memnebrs are prvaticng their due dilligence when itcomes to overseeng the actions of the community as a whole.
Medication
Addionally, due to the effects that aging has on the body, the nutrional needs of an elderly indvaul is singnaifanlty different than that of a younger indivual. As such, it is the ressponsibiltiy of the facitily's caretaker to ensure that they provide their residents with meals that provide them with an adequate amount of nutrion, based on their spefic needs. However, an unschdlung inspection can help to reveal if pateintnss with specific medical condtions are cconsuming the neccasry vitmains and mnerals they need, or if the staff is not taking each patennts specific needs into consideration when it comes to provdng them with food that contains an adeuate amount of …show more content…
As far as personal care goes, due to the fact that aging causes the body to gradually become more and more britlle, staff memebrs have to ensure that they handly their paitents in care. An unsheduled inspection can help to reveal if staff me,ebrs are in fact utilzing precatuionary steps to enusre that trhye do not inadevrantly injury the faciltiy's residents.
Supervision
While it may be etrue that alderly abuse can occur as a result of the actons of a staff memeber. Statisitcs demonstarte that a large majority of elderly idnviauls have been subjugated to some form of abuse from a nother resident. As such it is each staff memebrs repsonsbliity to suprivervisee the faiclaiity's residents to minzie the iinstances of elderly abuse as well as self-harm. Unschedules supervison can covrtly detect if staff memnebrs are prvaticng their due dilligence when itcomes to overseeng the actions of the community as a whole.
Medication