Sometimes, educating people about what elder abuse is is all that’s needed to take a big step against fighting it. That’s what an organization in Ohio is finding through a series of seminars that they’ve helped organize. One of … [Read more...]

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Sometimes, educating people about what elder abuse is is all that’s needed to take a big step against fighting it. That’s what an organization in Ohio is finding through a series of seminars that they’ve helped organize. One of … [Read more...]
Elder abuse is slowly but surely gaining widespread recognition. Unfortunately, a lot of this recognition is not good in its nature. It seems like every week another story emerges about someone taking advantage of an older … [Read more...]
According to the World Health Organization, only about one out of every 24 cases of elder abuse are ever reported to the authorities. Why is this? Like many other questions, there are different answers to this … [Read more...]
Whenever you turn on the news, it seems like there is always a horror story out there about an elderly individual that was mistreated. Just recently, I saw a news story about a woman in North Dakota that was found guilty of aggravated … [Read more...]
June is elder awareness month. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was recognized on June 15th, but the entire month should be used to recognize this important topic. Unfortunately, elder abuse is far more widespread than it should be. This … [Read more...]
Elder abuse is any type of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, or neglect, that is perpetrated against a senior citizen. Seniors are often targets of abuse because they present a more vulnerable target for would-be abusers. And … [Read more...]
Almost twenty years ago, my grandfather announced that he was getting married. None of us had ever met the person that he was engaged to. She moved in with him and he stopped talking to a lot of his family. He was 90 years old … [Read more...]
In Connecticut, an elder abuse hotline was recently established. The goal of this is to help detect and eliminate instances of abuse with more efficiency. This goes for all types of abuse, not just physical. Emotional, sexual, financial and … [Read more...]
Financial abuse is one of the more common types of senior abuse. It’s hard to get a gauge on how many people are impacted by this, especially because reports indicate that more than half of senior abuse cases go … [Read more...]
Neglect has long been a problem in the senior care industry. Some states have been incredibly diligent about this type of abuse, putting very strict procedures in place and cracking down hard on it when it happens. But even with these … [Read more...]
The vast majority of us cannot begin to understand why the abuse of seniors occurs. It’s wrong, no matter how you look at it. Why then does it ever occur? Unfortunately, not everyone thinks like you and I do. Some people are … [Read more...]
After all that we have gone through as a country over the last year, instances of racism and violence still occur with regularity. We see that unkind acts can occur not just against people of different cultures and ethnicities, but also … [Read more...]