Harriette Cole states that her 84 year old grandmother was living with her two daughters who smoke a lot. Harriette tried to convince the two girls and her friends not to stay close to the apartment when they smoke because it could cause damage to the grandmother. The apartment smelled really bad and there was nicotine on the walls. So Harriette called the health department and the police because they were abusing the grandma by having her living in unacceptable conditions. Also, most elders are abused in nursing homes, there was a report in Maine, where a grandfather who was sexually abused in a nursing home in 2006. The grandfather said that it was a man and he would not describe what he did to him. Since the abuser was over 18 he paid the
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According to an article called “Why Elder Abuse is Everyone 's Problem” The most common abuse is financial. Richard Corday, a director of of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says that the financial abuse is the signature crime of our century. There is a lot of excuses that people use for abusing the elders for example the abuser states “she bruises easily” or another excuse is “she was going to inherit that money soon anyways.” Lidia Vognar an assistant professor at Brown University 's Alpert School of Medicine also an expert on elder abuse, says that there is not a reason for us to be silent that we should inform police when we see any type of abuse occurring. The good news is that the research on elder abuse and the awareness has gone up in the past twenty years due to the knowledge of health care and the law have taken a big part …show more content…
For Example on Abandonment abuse, there was a report where 3 guys were arrested because they worked at a nursing home and the 3 of them just left, leaving the elders inside not getting what they need and when police got there the suspects had left but later on they found them and they had gone their own separate ways but they were still found and arrested for what they had done. There was people at the scene, but they didn 't know what to do like many people, but there is a place where they provide advice for when an abuse occurs. Doctor’s working with older people have to be alert to the possibility of elder abuse, they also have to be aware of it and they should support of the agency in preventing it and the management of elder abuse to lower the impact on the
According to an article called “Why Elder Abuse is Everyone 's Problem” The most common abuse is financial. Richard Corday, a director of of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says that the financial abuse is the signature crime of our century. There is a lot of excuses that people use for abusing the elders for example the abuser states “she bruises easily” or another excuse is “she was going to inherit that money soon anyways.” Lidia Vognar an assistant professor at Brown University 's Alpert School of Medicine also an expert on elder abuse, says that there is not a reason for us to be silent that we should inform police when we see any type of abuse occurring. The good news is that the research on elder abuse and the awareness has gone up in the past twenty years due to the knowledge of health care and the law have taken a big part …show more content…
For Example on Abandonment abuse, there was a report where 3 guys were arrested because they worked at a nursing home and the 3 of them just left, leaving the elders inside not getting what they need and when police got there the suspects had left but later on they found them and they had gone their own separate ways but they were still found and arrested for what they had done. There was people at the scene, but they didn 't know what to do like many people, but there is a place where they provide advice for when an abuse occurs. Doctor’s working with older people have to be alert to the possibility of elder abuse, they also have to be aware of it and they should support of the agency in preventing it and the management of elder abuse to lower the impact on the