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in Long-Term Care Residential facilities. Elder abuse affects elders of all socio-economic groups, cultures, and races. Data shows that elders are most often abused by family members or a person in a position of trust. Most victims know their abuser. Elders who have the highest risk of abuse are women, “older elders”, and individuals with dementia.
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lder abuse can occur anywhere. It can occur in a person’s home and
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• Sexual Abuse: The non-consensual sexual contact of any kind with an elderly individual. Examples: fondling of the breast or genitals, rape, coerced nudity, and sexually explicit photographing.
The Red Red Flags: * Emotional Abuse: Defi nitions of Elder Abuse include:
• Emotional Abuse: The intentional infl iction of mental or emotional anguish by threat, humiliation, intimidation, or other verbal or non-verbal abusive conduct. Examples: name calling, insulting, ignoring for extended periods of time, frightening, intimidating, and isolating from friends and family.
• Financial: The unauthorized use of funds or any resources of an elderly individual; the misuse or exploitation of Power of Attorney or Representative Payee Status for one’s own advantage or profi t. Examples: stealing jewelry or other property and obtaining the elderly person’s signature for transfer of property or for a will through force, pressure or violence.
• Neglect: The failure by the caregiver to obtain adequate goods or services for the elderly person’s maintenance and well-being, either intentionally or accidently. Examples: a caregiver who fails to buy groceries or prescription medications. Neglect can also be self-induced.
• Self-neglect: When the behavior of an elderly person threatens his or her own health or safety. Examples: failure to provide oneself with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medication, safety, and proper hygiene.
• Physical Abuse: The intentional use of physical force that results in bodily injury, pain, or impairment. Examples: beating, slapping, bruising, cutting, burning, pushing or shoving, excessively restraining, force-feeding, and physical punishment.
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* Emotional Abuse: • Unexplained or uncharacteristic changes in behavior, such as withdrawal from normal activities, unexplained changes in alertness; • Social isolation; • Caregiver is verbally aggressive or demeaning, controlling, overly concerned about spending money, or uncaring
* Exploitation: • Lack of amenities person can afford; • Elder giving excessive fi nancial reimbursement/ gifts for needed care and companionship; • Caregiver has control of elder’s fi nances, but fails to provide for elder’s needs; • Elder has signed property transfers (Power of Attorney, new will, etc.) but is unable to comprehend the transaction or what it means.
* Exploitation: * Neglect:
* Neglect: • Lack of basic hygiene, adequate food, or clean and appropriate clothing; • Lack of medical aids (glasses, walker, dentures, hearing aids, medications); • Person with dementia left unsupervised; • Person confi ned to a bed left without care; • Home cluttered, fi lthy, in state of disrepair, or fi re and safety hazards; • Home without adequate facilities (stove, refrigerator, heating, cooling, working plumbing, and electricity); • Untreated pressure “bed” sores (pressure ulcers)
* Physical/Sexual Abuse:
* Physical/Sexual Abuse: • Unexplained fractures, bruises, welts, cuts, sores, burns, torn or bloody undergarments
- Information from the Alabama Department of Senior Services
Elder Abuse Hotline 800-458-7214
National Center on Elder Abuse 800-677-1116
For additional assistance refer to page 42 as well as
www.alabamaageline.gov/assets/eaptoolkit.pdf
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