adult protection
Vulnerable grown-up safeguarding
Adult protection refers to legal frameworks, social services, and interventions designed to safeguard vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
The term typically covers those who cannot protect themselves due to age, disability, mental illness, or other circumstances: Adult protection services investigated reports of financial exploitation at the care home.
In the UK, adult protection is often called safeguarding adults.
- physical abuseIntentional bodily harm
- guardianshipLegal care of another
- case managementOverseeing individual client services
- social workerHuman services professional
- welfare checkVisit to confirm someone's okay
safety planning · mandatory reporting · counseling · cognitive impairment · domestic violence · emotional neglect · abuse hotline · housing assistance · fiduciary duty · human rights legislation · social isolation · substance dependency · safeguarding · duty of care · community outreach · homelessness · care home · chronic illness
- Elder Lawelder abuse, elder rights, elder care, elder neglect, eldercare
- legal proceedingstrial, verdict, lawsuit, testimony, plea
- guardianshipguardian, legal guardian, ward of court, conservator, custodian
- guardianship lawlegal guardian, legal guardianship, conservatorship, ward of court, mental capacity
- legal capacitylegal capacity, mental capacity, capacity, incapacity, competence
adult protectionchild protection
Measures ensuring youth safety
child services · child safeguarding · youth protection · child welfare
adult protectionabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
willful blindness · non-intervention · inaction · dereliction of duty
adult, protection, adults, adulthood, adulting, protect, protects, protected, protecting