Roughly 1.6 million people live in about 17,000 licensed nursing homes, and another projected 90,000 to 1 million live in an estimated 45,000 residential care facilities variously known as assisted living facilities, or adult care homes. Research proposes that the 2.5 million exposed individuals in these settings are at much higher danger for abuse and neglect than older persons who live at home. The all-purpose goal of this paper are to present the obtainable evidence about the nature and possibility of abuse and neglect in nursing homes and other residential care facilities and the causes, as well as to recommend a research program (C., 2003).
What defines physical abuse? The Administration on Aging terms abuse as “the willful infliction of injury, unreasoning imprisonment, intimidation or cruel retribution with causing of harm, pain, or mental anguish, or mental illness” (C., 2003). Neglect is another form of mistreatment an older person may suffer living in a care facility. As Clarke and Pierson noted, “Descriptions of neglect are probably the most unclear of any category of mistreatment of elderly persons” which may also comprise of “the denial or failure of a caregiver to achieve his or her duties or
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Information of abuse and neglect from ombudsmen are believed to have develop more dependable in recent years. As part of their duties the ombudsman program established a National Ombudsman Reporting System, using uniform definitions of complaint types and resolutions (Aging,