Quiz 5 Flashcards
Related statutes to defining elder mistreatment. 49 states and the district of Columbia have enacted this.
This is responsible for investigating reports of mistreatment to elderly persons living in private residence
Adult protective services
The federal definitions of elder abuse neglect and exploitation.
Older Americans act
Intentional action that cause harm or create a serious risk of harm whether or not intended to a vulnerable elder by caregiver or other person who stands in a trusted relationship to the elder.
Failure by caregiver to satisfy the elders basic needs or to protect the elder from harm.
Elder abuse or elder mistreatment
They use of physical force that may result in bodily injury physical pain or impairment. such acts of violence such as as striking hitting beating pushing shoving shaking slapping kicking pinching and burning. Additionally inappropriate use of drugs and physical restraint force feeding and physical punishment of any kind.
Physical abuse
The infliction of anguish pain or distress through verbal or nonverbal acts. This includes verbal assaults insults and threats intimidation humiliation and harassment. In addition treating an older person like an infant isolating an elderly person from his or her family friends or regular activities giving an older person the silent treatment and enforced social isolation.
Emotional or psychological abuse
Non-consensual sexual act of any kind with an elderly person. Sexual contact with any person incapable of giving consent. This includes unwanted touching all types of sexual assault or battery such as rape sodomy coerced nudity and sexually explicit photographing
Sexual abuse
The illegal or improper use of an elder funds property or assets. This includes cashing in elderly persons check without authorization or permission forging an older person’s signature misusing or stealing older persons money or possessions coercing or decieving an older person into signing a document and the improper use of conservatorship guardianship or power of attorney
Financial or material exploitation
The right to control another’s finances on his or her behalf often when the other person is incapacitated or unable to make decisions for him or herself
Conservatorship
The right to make business or legal decisions on another’s behalf for either a specific issue or specific period of time
Power of attorney
This allows one to make healthcare decisions on behalf of another
Health care power of attorney
The refusal or failure to fill any part of a persons obligations or duties to an elder. This includes failure of a person who has responsibilities to provide care for an elder or the failure on the part of an in-home service provider to provide necessary care. This means the refusal or failure to provide an elderly person with such life necessities as food water clothing shelter personal hygiene medicine comfort personal safety and other essentials included in an implied or agreed-upon responsibility to an elder.
Neglect
The dispersion of an elderly person by an individual who has assumed responsibility for providing care for an elder or by a person with physical custody of an elder
Abandonment
The behavior of an elderly person that threatens his or her own health or safety. This is seen if an older person has a refusal or failure to provide himself or herself with adequate food water clothing shelter personal hygiene medication and safety precautions.
Self neglect
This theory assumes that the abusers intra-individual problems require mental health treatment
Pathology Theory
This theory attributes of use to learned behavior in which the adult abuse or was Mistreated as a child and now is retaliating with similar behaviors
Theory of transgenerational violence
This theory that all social interaction between persons involve rewards and punishments. In the case of elder abuse the victim is dependent on the abuser for care ward however the abuser does not feel that the victim reciprocates with equal rewards and thus withholds care or punishes the victim.
Social exchange theory
This theory suggested that caregiver stress and excessive demands may cause the caregiver to ultimately lash out even though this theory has been disapproved by research
Situational model
This theory places responsibility on socio-cultural attitudes toward the elderly and the lack of resources with in the community.
Feminist theory
This theory combines the human ecological perspective with the life course perspective thus addressing the various systems as they influence and are influenced by human behavior over time
Applied ecological framework
