Senior Citizens
Lets Show Love
Abuse
Many seniors in townships are being abused and harmed in some substantial way often by people who are directly responsible for their care.
As elders become more physically frail, they’re less able to stand up to bullying and or fight back if attacked. They may not see or hear as well or think as clearly as they used to, leaving openings for unscrupulous people to take advantage of them. Mental or physical ailments may make them more trying companions for the people who live with them. Abuse tends to take place where the senior lives most often in the home where abusers are often adult children, other family members such as grandchildren, or spouses/partners of elders.
Helpless
Abuse of the elderly in townships takes many different forms, some involving intimidation or threats against the elderly, some involving neglect, and others involving financial fraud.
Physical elder abuse includes not only physical assaults such as hitting or shoving but the inappropriate use of drugs, restraints, or confinement. Some elderly in townships are emotionally and or psychologically abused. Most people speak to or treat elderly persons in ways that cause emotional pain or distress. Old people in disadvantaged communities are intimidated through yelling or threats, humiliation and ridicule, habitual blaming or scapegoating mostly by the grandchildren they take care of through government subsidy.
