In my understanding, social workers should have a thorough knowledge about the issue and the basic causes of the ageism, then can render better services for the service users. From the readings I understood that age, gender, disability, race and culture, sexual orientation, poverty, workload and lack of time are the major forms of subjugation that influencing elder abuse (Wwalsh et al., 2011) and therefore, social workers work should revolve around these oppression forms. Therefore, a structural social work approach is required to address the elder abuse by transforming the societal structures (Mullaly, 2010). According to Danso (2015), the root causes of the oppression are not focusing on individual failures but is with the unjust societal
