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Some possible Elder Abuse I came across on the net.
* Jokes about habits/faults/age disabilities
* Insults about the senior
* Overly familiar, e.g., use of “dear” – not using name senior prefers
* Speaking to third party (acting as if the senior was not there)
* Treating senior as a child
* Not looking at person with hearing loss – treating this as a disability
* Ignoring the senior’s feelings
* When placed in care facility – often choice of food, clothing, bathroom habits are removed
* Not keeping a promise
* Shouting – name calling
* Repeated/targeted insults
* Repeated humiliation – both in private and in public
* Blaming senior for all faults
* Lying to senior
* Silence/shunning
* Threatening violence/retaliation/isolation
* Putting down senior’s abilities, e.g. as a parent/grandparent
* Alienating children/grandchildren towards senior
* Expecting senior to look after grandchildren when beyond the senior’s physical and other capabilities
* Adult children moving home/living off senior(s)
* Repeated threats – to put senior in a home/mental hospital
* Nervous breakdown/depression
* Threatened/attempted suicide by abuser
* Attempted suicide
