Elder Abuse - still a menace
Morenike Adetunji Has it ever crossed your mind that older people feel pain and hurt too?Have you ever imagined that old people can be abused too? When the word abuse is used, one can guess that the instances that comes to your mind are child abuse, sexual abuse and other popular forms of abuse. However there are other forms of abuse that have not really been heralded, among these is Elder Abuse. Unlike other forms of domestic violence, Elder Abuse is yet to get attention all over the world, it nonetheless continues to spread like an uncontained virus. The World Health Organization (WHO), who brought international attention to the issue of Elder Abuse in 2002 defined the abuse to be "a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person". This basically means taking advantage of the vulnerability of elders by refusing to act or ac...