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.…
However, neglect against older adults can also occur even when there is no willful desire to inflict physical or emotional distress on an older person. This is because the caregiver may be young, inexperienced, or handicapped. Symptoms of neglect against older adults include sunken eyes, loss of weight, extreme thirst, malnourishment, bedsores, overmedication, refusal to provide health services, untreated injuries or illnesses, and poor hygiene. Furthermore, the neglected older adult’s environment may also provide clues that abuse is occurring.…
Meta Description: Senior care experts in Thousand Oaks are aware of the hidden signs of elder abuse, including financial, neglect, physical, psychological, or sexual mistreatment. Primary keyword: elder abuse Secondary keyword: home health care Title: Elder Abuse Can Take Many Forms and Can Are Hard to Detect H1 Thousand Oaks Senior Care Experts Recognize the Signs of Elder Abuse Aging adults may suffer from more than one kind of elder abuse. Those suffering from dementia are especially vulnerable.…
Elders get physically abused by their family members, caregivers, and other residents. Physical abuse is more noticeable compared to other abuses because elders seem to have thinner skins and are more sensitive to harm. Physical abuse generally happens in facilities like long-term care, nursing homes and assisted livings.…
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.…
When considering the reporting of any form of elder abuse, nurses should be aware of both the laws of the state they practice in as well as hospital policy regarding the reporting of abuse. There are many states that have specific laws regarding elder abuse. Many of these laws have varying ages for when an individual became protected by the specific elder abuse law(s). For instance, New Jersey’s laws pertain to adults 18 years of age or older who are victims of abuse, neglect, or exploitation (New Jersey Department of Human Services, n.d.). Other states have laws specifically pertaining to older adults.…
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)…
Elder Abuse or often refered to as elder mistreatment can be defended as the “knowing the intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver act by a caregiver or any other persons that causes…
When it leads to death it is not only a crime, but there is also the possibility of a wrongful death lawsuit. When the physical abuse is bad enough that it leads to death, a medical examiner will usually discover this, but not always. It is possibility that the abuse was a single event that led to the elderly person's death, and the caregiver claimed it was an accident. Regardless whether a caregiver was charged with a crime, a wrongful death lawsuit is still possible. They fall down When an elderly person falls down, the consequences can be fatal.…
A survey that was conducted from Ontario nurses showed that 42% observed an elderly person being abused in the last three years (Dong, Chen et al, 2013). Elder abuse in the facility can harm the facility itself, and also its victims, whether a staff member is abusing a senior or a senior is abusing another…
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…
Due to lack of support from the family member there was no proper care for the elderly person (Duglass2001). As there are many forms of elder abuse, such as psychological, physical, and sexual abuse. Also, neglect either by the person giving care as well as the elderly neglecting themselves (Dong2012). Even though this article discusses different types of elder abuse, and one of the ones is physical abuse. A number of studies have focused on the risk factors of associating with family caregivers that are abusing the elder.…