Everyone hopes to choose their lives by themselves and have their will respected, or to live their lives with dignity, regardless of whether they need long-term care. In actuality, however, abuse against the elderly in which their family members and relatives violate their human rights has been a major concern. Some elderly people cannot complain about being harassed even if they feel terrible and are unhappy. Are there any such people around you?

There are various types of abuse

Abuse against the elderly does not refer simply to violent behavior (physical abuse), but also to psychological abuse, such as verbal attacks, disregard, and harassing behavior. It also includes the abandonment of care and neglect of the elderly, in which their family members and relatives do not have them use long-term care services necessary for them and do not take care of them. There is also economic abuse, in which the resources of the elderly are spent without their permission, and sexual abuse (sexual harassment).

Major types of abuse

In many cases, abusive behavior is committed unconsciously

In some cases, an accumulation of trifling behavior leads to abuse

Even if family members and relatives of elderly persons think that their behavior is trifling and trivial, an accumulation of such behavior may have a great impact on the elderly persons.

If people around elderly persons do not know how to take care of them, they may respond to the elderly persons inappropriately. Even if they provide support to the elderly persons for their own good, this may lead to abuse.