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Adult Abuse - Coggle Diagram
Adult Abuse
Financial
includes
the theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills,
property, inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse or misappropriation of property,
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Neglect
includes
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access to appropriate health, social care or educational services, the withholding of the
Failure to provide necessities of life such as medication, adequate nutrition and heating.
Physical
Physical abuse involves hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, misuse of medication, restraint or
inappropriate sanctions (HSE 2014).
Sexual
Sexual abuse includes rape and sexual assault, or sexual acts to which the vulnerable person has
not consented, or could not consent, or into which he or she was compelled to consent (HSE 2014).
Discriminatory
includes ageism, racism, sexism, that based on a person's disability, and
other forms of harassment, slurs or similar treatment (HSE 2014).
Institutional
can occur
within residential care and acute settings including nursing homes,
acute hospitals and any other in‐patient settings, and may involve poor standards of care, rigid routines & inadequate responses to complex needs (HSE 2014).
Psychological
involves
emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of
contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, harassment, verbal abuse,
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