Stopping mistreatment of the elderly 9 Articles

by Ted Sherman

My mother was in a nursing home for two years, from age 87 until she died just before her 90th birthday. The facility had three separate units, which usually marked the sequence during the elderly person's downward path. O...read more

by Pamela Mercier

The mistreatment of the elderly is another facet of a world that has lost its values about human life. People have become "resources" to be used and then discarded. The saddest and most cruel part is that elder abuse comes...read more

by MC Williams

Stopping mistreatment of the elderly, I read those words and rage courses through me immediately. I remember my great-grand parents, mostly because I come from a huge Irish Catholic family and most of them had kids at youn...read more

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by Candy Jules

You never know what really goes on behind closed doors. You never know how two faced people can really be, unless you see it with your own eyes, or you work around it, and catch them in the act. It happens more than you kn...read more

by Denepher Smith

Mistreatment of the Elderly. The story is told of group of children who taunted an old prophet calling him "old grey beard". The punishment meted out far exceeded the crime in it's severity. Whatever the truths of th...read more

by Robert Cooke

As he made his rounds, the night watchman was not prepared for the chilling sight that awaited him. There, just outside a plush residential complex, he came upon two dead bodies, an elderly married couple who had leaped fr...read more

by Grey Lady

Mistreatment of the elderly is not confined to physical abuse. Some may not realize that even though they have placed an elderly relative in a reputable nursing facility and make sure the bills are paid they are still 'abu...read more

by Jennifer Sanchez

Imagine having to report being abused and in return having to move out of the only place you have known for 70+ years - your own home. This is what the elderly fear of facing when reporting abuse from a spouse, relative or...read more

by Dale Hefferton

We all one day will be elderly ,hense the misstreatment of elder people should be considered before action.The fact that out bodies age and do not perform like they once did does not mean that the human brain is not perfor...read more