senior neglect
Aged care failure
Senior neglect is the failure to provide adequate care, supervision, or necessities to an elderly person.
It may be intentional or result from a caregiver's inability to meet the person's needs.
Neglect includes withholding food, medication, hygiene, or social contact: The nursing home faced charges of senior neglect after inspectors found residents in soiled bedding.
Distinguished from elder abuse, which involves active harm rather than failure to act.
- ageismPrejudice targeting older people
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- bedsoresPressure-caused skin lesions
- bed soresPressure-caused skin lesions
- medication errorsIncorrect pharmaceutical administration
missed meals · dehydration · verbal abuse · isolation · left alone · loneliness · understaffing · nursing home · depression · abandonment · anxiety · pressure ulcers · fall risk · apathy · warning signs
- elder abuseelder fraud, nursing home abuse, caregiver abuse, financial abuse, physical abuse
senior neglectelder care
Assistance for seniors
senior care · elderly care · geriatric care · compassionate care · custodial care
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