Question

write a 6 pages research paper on elderly abuse in the long term care industry.

Answer 1

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In the last few years the research on elderly abuse in long term care industry has been enhanced.And mostly all the researchers are concentrated in the occurrence, sources and dangers in the group.Anyway the elder individuals who are staying in the residential surroundings which suggest long-term caring are at certain dangers for abuse and mistreating.

These elderly individuals are specially at high risk in the view of the fact that almost everyone are affected by certain long-term disorders which guide to restrictions in the physical and mental performance and are usually relying on other persons.

And almost everyone is not able to tell of abuse or mistreating and are afraid on such revealing because, that may sometimes result in retribution or sometimes make bad actions on them.

According to the reports, around 1.5 million individuals exist in almost 16000 licensed long-term care industry.And it is also reported that almost 1 million individuals exist in almost 40000 other nursing provisions.And in this almost 2 million elderly people are in extreme danger of mistreatment and abuse.

Normally 18% of individuals going through the age of 66-75 and 62% of individuals going through 80-95 are in the dependence of long-term care industries.

The abuses that the elderly individuals are facing from the long-term care organizations are,

* Violent behavior towards the elder individuals.

* vulgar handling of elder individuals.

* shouting at elder individuals in extreme annoyance.

* Blackmailing the elderly individuals.

* Hitting and beating the elderly individuals.

Some of the mistreating towards the elderly individuals involves,

* Refuse to provide good injury care.

* Not providing facilities for daily bathing.

* Not providing proper exercising facilities.

* Not showing importance to the requests from elderly individuals.

The above Informations gives us a good idea on elderly abuse in the long-term care industry.

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