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Abuse of the Elderly - Page 2

Care home deaths show system failures

Hundreds of seniors in San Diego County have suffered broken bones, deadly bed sores, sexual assaults and other injuries at assisted living homes that promised them care and safety in their waning ... Ref. Source 1

Elderly the Abuse

Thousands of residents in U.S. Nursing homes and other long-term care institutions for the aged and disabled have had their personal savings raided or mismanaged after relying on the facilities to safeguard the money in special trust fund accounts, a USA TODAY investigation shows. In scores of cases, employees or administrators siphoned huge sums of money from trust accounts - hundreds of thousands of dollars in some instances - for everything from shopping and gambling sprees to routine household expenses. Ref. USAToday

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Elders living alone with abuser more likely to endure severe mistreatment

A new study examining elder abuse-released has found that older adult victims living alone with their abuser were up to four times more likely to endure more severe levels of mistreatment. The study suggests that the addition of non-perpetrators also living in the home played a protective function to buffer severity. Ref. Source 5w.