The importance of not neglecting the elderly's needs is a serious factor when it comes to abuse. A patient with soiled clothes or bedding, looks malnourished and dirty, and has untreated physical problems is clearly getting neglected. A patient experiencing financial abuse will demonstrate purchases for inappropriate or unnecessary items, bills going unpaid, utilities getting shut off. Physical abuse will show signs such as unexplained burns or other signs of harm done, denying a person of medication, food and water, confining someone to a bed or wheelchair and bruises and bed sores are common forms of physical abuse. Emotional abuse consists of yelling, threatening, intimidating, and isolating another adult from doing activities he/she
