This paper reviews the specifications of senior citizens abuse. The contemporary evaluation studies of the elderly citizens’ emotional stability prove that there is a consistent percentage of offensive treatment towards the seniors both in the family environments and asylums. Thus, the old people are regularly abused by those individuals who are entitled to provide them with professional care. One differentiates different types of elderly abuse.
Specifically, such classes as physical and emotional abuse, neglect, financial, and sexual exploitation are recounted. The critical issue that disturbs the specialists is that some seniors do not evince any evident signs of offense. Therefore, it is often hard to identify. Today, the psychologists managed to outline some indicators of abuse. These are some alterations in the personal conduct of elderly people as well as a negative shift in relationships between a patient and a caregiver (Elder abuse and neglect, 2014).
The medical care experts outline several reasons, according to which the population of seniors is viewed as abuse-prone. Mainly, it is acknowledged that such factors as carelessness, obvious provocation, and mute cooperation account for the creation of a favorable background for subsequent offenses.
Since the senior citizens are vulnerable to victimization, the factors of passive collaboration and carelessness define their lifestyles (Davis, Lurigio, & Herman, 2013). Thus, elderly people are the primary targets of offenders since they are not always able to protect themselves.
The complex measures have to be taken both on the local and global scales of community treatment, which would resolve the problem of elderly abuse. The most appropriate type of offense prevention is the appliance of reconciliation practices. Restorative acts underline the importance of bringing all the parties together with the aim of finding a common solution to a particular problem that is disrupting their well-being (Hurley, 2009).
Since the crisis of seniors’ treatment concerns all the sectors of the world community, the reconciliations have to be accomplished on the global scales. However, due to the contradictory character of restorative justice as well as a lack of consensus between the international and local community representatives, the mission of implementation is hard to carry out (Androff, 2012). Therefore, the practical evidence reveals that the world community has not come to a single compromise on the issue.
Covering the practices and cases of elderly abuse inflicts some harsh psychosocial and physical damage to the seniors’ health. For instance, one outlines such harmful physical consequences as soreness and pain, an increase of vulnerability to multiple diseases and complications, which might be adopted through sexually-transmitted illnesses, constant stresses, and evictions of depression as well as sleep disordering.
The follow-ups of psychological and mental damages may be revealed through the signs of helplessness, pessimism, and evident passivity, fear, and anxiety adoption (Injury prevention & control: Division of violence prevention, 2011). The contemporary nursing specialists, as well as psychologists, implement some consistent prevention strategies that may hinder the occurrence rates of elderly abuse. Mainly, some professionals actively use such techniques as varied teaching, which helps the seniors to cope with their behavioral problems.
Moreover, the experts employ a sufficient dosage method, which accounts for the usage of the so-called communication contacts development. The strategy predetermines that the elderly people have to be constantly exposed to active associations, for it reduces the level of stress and anxiety.
Besides, the technique of positive relationships is often adopted. It aims at showing the patients that they live among amiable and friendly society members. The strategy particularly targets the relations between elderly parents and their children (Elder abuse and neglect: In search of solutions, 2014).
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