Institutional Elder Abuse in Canada
The topic of my paper is ‘Institutional Elder Abuse in Canada’. Particularly, two incidents drew my attention to research on this topic. First, I witnessed some evidences of mistreatment and neglect to elder clients during my clinical placement in the first semester in one of the long-term cares in Toronto. When the clients were unwilling to get up or eat and delay in doing daily activities, the care givers would force them and at some point handle them aggressively or leave them unattended. Secondly, when I saw some heart-wrenching abusive behaviors towards the residential elder clients in a video, ‘BBC Documentary Panorama Behind Closed Doors.’(2014), posted for the online discussion for Health and Aging …show more content…
Similarly, in Ontario, among 1.5 million older populations, approximately 4% or 60,000 experience abuse (OHRC, n.d). These figures are only of the documented cases. The real incidents of abuse are believed to be higher than the available statistics because many cases are unreported. There are several reason; however, many of the victims are not willing to report the abuse cases because of the social stigma or complicated process of complain, fear of revenge and embarrassment (Touhy et al. 2012). They also think that the abuse is due to their …show more content…
For example, overload of works on staff, lack of proper training, unfavorable physical environment and profit making institutional policy etc. directly or indirectly give impetus to elder abuse (WHO, 2002). So, institutions should properly balance all those aspects. More importantly, they have to adopt zero tolerance policy to abuse, violence and neglect and effectively implement them in practice. They should have proper supervision mechanism, conduct meeting and interaction programs among the staff time to time, share ideas and experiences one another and encourage the clients to report in case of mistreatment. In addition, government regulatory bodies also have to inspect and examine the functioning of the care facilities time to time and compel them to meet all required standards so that cases of elder abuse could be reduced or eliminated. Also the provincial and the federal government have to provide necessary financial supports to the elderly care facilities in need. In order to better prepare care providers- nurses, personal support workers etc.- measures of abuse control needs to be included in the study curriculum. In this way, collaboration and coordination of multiple sectors, such as social welfare sector, education and health
The topic of my paper is ‘Institutional Elder Abuse in Canada’. Particularly, two incidents drew my attention to research on this topic. First, I witnessed some evidences of mistreatment and neglect to elder clients during my clinical placement in the first semester in one of the long-term cares in Toronto. When the clients were unwilling to get up or eat and delay in doing daily activities, the care givers would force them and at some point handle them aggressively or leave them unattended. Secondly, when I saw some heart-wrenching abusive behaviors towards the residential elder clients in a video, ‘BBC Documentary Panorama Behind Closed Doors.’(2014), posted for the online discussion for Health and Aging …show more content…
Similarly, in Ontario, among 1.5 million older populations, approximately 4% or 60,000 experience abuse (OHRC, n.d). These figures are only of the documented cases. The real incidents of abuse are believed to be higher than the available statistics because many cases are unreported. There are several reason; however, many of the victims are not willing to report the abuse cases because of the social stigma or complicated process of complain, fear of revenge and embarrassment (Touhy et al. 2012). They also think that the abuse is due to their …show more content…
For example, overload of works on staff, lack of proper training, unfavorable physical environment and profit making institutional policy etc. directly or indirectly give impetus to elder abuse (WHO, 2002). So, institutions should properly balance all those aspects. More importantly, they have to adopt zero tolerance policy to abuse, violence and neglect and effectively implement them in practice. They should have proper supervision mechanism, conduct meeting and interaction programs among the staff time to time, share ideas and experiences one another and encourage the clients to report in case of mistreatment. In addition, government regulatory bodies also have to inspect and examine the functioning of the care facilities time to time and compel them to meet all required standards so that cases of elder abuse could be reduced or eliminated. Also the provincial and the federal government have to provide necessary financial supports to the elderly care facilities in need. In order to better prepare care providers- nurses, personal support workers etc.- measures of abuse control needs to be included in the study curriculum. In this way, collaboration and coordination of multiple sectors, such as social welfare sector, education and health