Elder Mistreatment Case Study This case study was concerning the health and safety of Mr. Edward McKay in his home. Mr. McKay is an 82 year old gentleman who after suffering two cerebral vascular accidents has been left with left sided hemiplegia and is unable to speak. He is bedridden with bilateral lower extremity contractures, incontinent, dysphasic and dysphagic. Mr. McKay’s physical condition alone would require total care on a 24 hour basis to assist with feeding, changing and turning him. He lives with his only daughter and son in law and has no other people who check on him or assist with care in his family.…
A senior suffering from dementia is not competent to give consent. Any unwanted attempt to sexually arouse the senior or satisfy a sexual need of the caregiver is abuse. Millions of seniors are subjected to abuse every year. The United Nations instituted World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to shed light on the problem of abuse. The goal is to encourage solutions that will reduce the occurrence of elder abuse.…
Working with seniors in the case of abuse is challenging and demanding, and social workers need to use an anti-oppressive approach in order to address the issue and meet seniors’ needs. Additionally, social workers need to have a deep knowledge about risk factors, symptoms of neglect and elder abuse, in order to address the consequences and prevent them from reoccurrence (Donovan & Regehr, 2010). Elder abuse is a result of oppression based on age, which means that structural anti-oppression intervention surrounding aging is required in order to “confront and change social institutions, policies, laws, and economic and political systems that operate in a way that benefit the dominant group at the expense of subordinate groups” (Mullaly, 2007,…
Adolescent may express feelings of being mistreated or ignored by becoming inappropriately active sexually and act out their frustrations Elderly · Elderly are a natural setup for abuse because of their age. · Elder asks to be separated from caretaker who is abusing them. · Elder seem overly alert when the caregiver is around and watches the caregiver’s every move. · Unexplained chest, abdominal or pelvic pain · Bleeding from nose, mouth, vagina, or anus, bruises on both sides of the body, inside the thighs, top of shoulders · A lot of abuse may be invisible. Threats of withholding medication, ambulation assistance and creature comforts, or just threatening to carry out physical abuse can be devastating.…
Types of senior abuse to recognize are abandonment, financial exploitation, sexual and self neglect. Senior abuse unfortunately is difficult to recognize because most senior citizens are ashamed, and embarrassed to admit their being abused. Senior citizens also fear that their abuser will seek revenge, or even hurt them. Legal reporting requirements of senior abuse are documenting witnesses and providing pictures of the…
Health care Policy Analysis: Elderly Maltreatment in Long-term Care Facilities Problem-Statement: What method should long-term care facilities adopt to reduce elder maltreatment incidents? Background: There are many forms of elderly maltreatment that may occur within a long-term care facility. Maltreatment can be physical, psychological, sexual, and/or financial harm.…
Elder Abuse is divided into seven categories including: physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, self-neglect, and miscellaneous. (Tatara, T., & Kuzmekus, L. B., 1997) The most common form of EOL elder abuse is neglect. Research shows that 49% of all EOL elder abuse cases are a direct result of neglect, and 84% of these cases go unreported to Adult Protective Services (APS). (National center on elder abuse, 1998)…
For the past 20 plus years researchers have devoted a considerable amount of time identifying the risk factors that heightening the probability of elderly maltreatments. “ Several reviews summarizing this literature (Ansello, 1996, Kosberg, 1988; Schiamberg & Gerans, 200 retrieved from Jackson & Hafermeister) have identified several factors that can heighten the probability, such as, advanced age, dependence on others, living arrangements, excessive alcohol consumption, dementia, intergenerational and unfamiliar conflict, depression, isolation, poor health, antagonizing behavior, excessive loyalty to others and internalization of blame” (Jackson & Hafermeister, 2011, p.738). Risk factors such as mental illness social isolation, and being or becoming economically troubled or dependent, and a…
Introduction An extensive increase in the amount of elderly citizens living in long term care facilities has become very evident in modern society. This is a result of the growing population of elderly citizens and life expectancy increase rate (Jackson & Hafemeister, 2011). With over fifteen hundred residential care facilities in Canada, elder abuse is a serious problem. It includes physical, emotional, social, financial and sexual abuse.…
It is a situation of eat or do without. The elderly are the fastest growing part of the population in the United States. Due to this increase in the elderly population, it is anticipated that abuse will increase. Conclusion Elder abuse is a serious problem.…
Problem of Elder Mistreatment From a national level, to individual states the elder population is rising and relatedly the level of elder abuse is increasing as well. The term elder mistreatment and abuse is a broad category that differs from state to state. As of late, more and more states are beginning to engage in the seriousness of elder abuse and develop a common understanding for the term elder abuse. Through efforts of advocacy and policies elder mistreatment is beginning to be known as a national issue that needs to be handled with accordingly. According to the National Research Council they defined elder mistreatment as, “intentional actions that cause harm or create a serious risk of harm, whether or not intended, to a vulnerable…
Every day there are many people around the world, specifically in Canada that undergo abuse whether it be emotional, physical, sexual or more. It is ongoing daily without people even realizing it happening before their eyes. It isn’t only child abuse or spousal abuse, but a more recent discovery of abuse is among the elderly. One of the most startling facts is that the horrible events of abuse seem to be happening under the eyes of caregivers in long term care facilities. This is a problem especially with the amount of elders around us.…
A category that can go into senior neglect is senior abandonment. That could be from dropping a senior off at a nursing home where often they die from depression and or suicide. Or the most technical definition of literally deserting an elder under the legal care of said person. Senior abandonment is a problem that leads to something not often talk about with the topics of seniors- suicide. It is a traumatic thing to believe that you are alone, or not cared for.…
Elder abuse is a pervasive public health issue, one that affects 10% of older adults above the age of 60 in the United States each year. It is prevalent and quickly increasing with the ever-growing elder population that now represents 40 million (12.9%) of the population, but by 2030, will represent 72.1 million of the population (Dong, 2012). Elder abuse is anything that causes physical, mental, and/or emotional harm and includes abuse, neglect and exploitation (What is Resident Mistreatment, 2011). Elder abuse can take many forms, such as emotional, physical, sexual, and financial. Several things are thought to be correlated with elder abuse.…
A family member that is doing the abuse, are more likely to strike out in time of stress. The elder person does not report the abuse of being in fear of being mistreated Worchester band before (Kohn2011). Another article is using a common term that is used in society today is a known fact that elder abuse and neglect or more than just a neutral word. In fact only going studies of physical, emotional and psychological abuse that violates the rights of the elder people. The author uses the phrase elder abuse and neglect in quotation marks as a way to look at exploitation and neglect the writer also uses the words elder abuse and neglect to support a notion that the development of elder abuse and neglect is changing the way people understand the ongoing process today (Harbison2012).…