On my recent visit to South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital, where my grandmother is staying, I noticed how well the nurses and doctors where treating her. Since my grandmother has several complication, such as hard of hearing and stubbornness, nurses had a difficult time trying to work with her during therapy appointments, however, they wouldn’t give up on her or lose their patients. This got me thinking if all nurses and doctors, in all nursing homes, are as friendly and caring to elders such as my grandmother. Elder abuse in nursing homes is a big issue due to the emotional, physical and finical problem it causes to that elderly person.
Many people believe that its easy taking advantage of an elder and it’s not going to hurt them, but it…
Well, elders have feeling too, just because their old doesn’t mean there unable to function properly. Helen Love was living in a home in Sacramento, California. She was attacked by a certified nurse that was angered by her, “he chocked me and went and broke my neck and broke my wrist” (Love.1). Two days after her interview Helen Love passed away. The attacker got charged with abuse and one year in a county jail, officials also found three other employees, in that same facility, physically abusing elders. Action was token abound the attackers, although abused elders are the once left with the shame and embarrassment when it’s not their fault.
Elder abuse isn’t really physically beating an elder, its mostly taking advantage of their medical disabilities. Elder abuse means using their belonging to someone’s advantage weather its physically, emotionally, and financially. Elders should be treated with respect because they “contributed to great things that we’ve all benefitted from… and they should be highlighted as one of the achievements of a community,” (Harris.) rather than treating them as a…
