...Elder abuse and neglect among the elderly is one of the many challenges we face today. Elder mistreatment is a common, yet frequently ignored problem in our society. The elderly population is increasing dramatically. By the year, 00 demographic predictors say the population of 65+ will grow to 70 million, which represents a 100 percent increase over 0 years. So elderly abuse and neglect will continue to be serious problem in the United States. It is estimated that in the year 000 “11,000 Americans age 65 or older experienced a violent crime”. Elder abuse not only happens in institutional settings, but it is also appearing in domestic settings. The close, extended, and often times unsupervised visits that helpers have with patients has increasingly highlighted the need to protect elderly clients. Like any other form of abuse, elder abuse is a multifaceted problem, and it is easy for people to have misconceptions about it. When you hear the words “elder abuse and neglect” you often times think of elderly people sitting all alone in nursing homes with no visitors. But I have mentioned earlier that elder abuse is not just a problem of older people living in nursing homes, but it is right in our midst. Most of the incidents of elder abuse doesn’t happen in a nursing home setting. Often times there are reports of nursing home residents who are mistreated, but for the most part elder abuse takes place in the home. When elder abuse happens in the home it is usually done by a family...
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...Elder abuse is not a new phenomenon. There is evidence of its existence centuries ago. More recent is recognition of elder abuse as a health and social problem. In the United States this first surfaced in the 1950s, but it was not until the 1980s that elder abuse “came of age” as a major concern of older Americans. However, elder abuse is not confined to a single locale. Rather, it is a global problem, found in both developed and developing countries (Antezberger, 2009). The purpose of this essay is to example the types of elder abuse, how to identify elder abuse, risk factors associated with elder abuse, reporting elder abuse and ethics associated with elder abuse in a healthcare role, specifically as a certified nurse assistant (CNA). Forms of Elder Abuse Unfortunately elder abuse can take many forms. The first form and obvious is physical abuse. Physical abuse is the use of force that causes unnecessary pain or injury, even if the reason is to help, can be regarded as abusive behavior. Physical abuse can include deliberate or inadvertent hitting, beating, pushing, kicking, pinching, burning, biting, overmedicating, under medicating, or force-feeding; improper use of physical or chemical restraints; and exposure to severe weather. Emotional or psychological abuse is a form of abuse or behaviors that causes an older adult to have fear, mental anguish or emotional pain or distress. This kind of abuse includes name-calling, intimidation, insults and threats which could lead to...
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...Geriatric Field Argumentative Essay Jazmine Capel Critical Thinking 2:00pm-3:20pm Formal Analysis 1) The impact that my grandparents have made in my life has influenced me to make working with the elderly a career. 2) The elderly are an ever so rapidly growing population and there is a need for professionals in the geriatric field. 3) The many issues that accompany the elderly are a growing concern of mine. 4) I believe that caring for the elderly is one of the most challenging and exciting areas of health care. Therefore, I have chosen Geriatric Social Work as a career objective. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ~John Bunyan I believe that we were given two hands, one to help ourselves and one to help others. As an aspiring social worker, I have learned that helping others who cannot sufficiently help themselves is one of the main objectives of the profession. My career objectives upon graduation include being a social worker in a hospital, care facility or an agency focused on helping families but specifically the elderly. The impact that my grandparents have made in my life has influenced me to make working with the elderly a career. The elderly are an ever so rapidly growing population and there is a need for professionals in the geriatric field. The many issues that accompany the elderly are a growing concern of mine. I believe that caring for the elderly is one of the most challenging...
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...Elder Abuse One of the most recent social problems to impact people all around the world that many people are unaware of is the abuse of elders. Whether it’s by trusted friends and family members or mistreatment by a hired care taker, elders are not being given the same respect they were many years ago. Like most things this maltreatment has always been around, but in the last few decades it has shown its face much more often. According to Gibbs (2010), “In the past 30 years, awareness of elder abuse has been raised by a minority of professionals in healthcare, social services, law enforcement and public service” (p534). To help give a more adequate view of this issue, the definition of elder abuse and mistreatment, the effects on the elders themselves, what some of the causes are, and what is being done to help prevent and/or solve this problem will be covered in this essay. After reading and understanding this issue, from the causes and effects, to the possible solutions, spotting and doing something to help stop the problem may be much easier. Before knowing and understanding the effects of this blossoming issue one must be fully aware of what it actually is. Elder abuse is best defined by Laura Mosqueda (2010) as “The mistreatment or neglect of an older adult. The mistreatment/neglect may be intentional or unintentional, and may either harm the elder or put them at significant risk of harm” (p214). There is usually a specific group of people that commit the acts of...
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...Sparta Any society that abuses their children should crumble. Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state that valued military strength above all else. They did not teach academics, farming, or anything else besides military tactics. The weaknesses outweigh the strengths because, they didn’t get a proper education, they abused the children, if the children were not strong at birth they were killed. The weaknesses of Sparta outweighed the strengths because, the Spartans lacked education. They had foreign teachers, they only learned for practical reasons and, all other forms of education were banned from the country. Books and treatises were included in this. It states in document D that [The Spartans] learned to read and write for purely practical reasons: but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being included in this much a [foreign teachers]. How could the Spartans have to be able to steal food and not get caught? If they were caught, they were beaten, I just don't think that that is very fair at all. How could beat a person for following your orders?...
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...Domestic violence is a large social issue in the United States today, as well as all over the world. Domestic violence includes sibling abuse, elder abuse, spouse abuse, and child abuse. Domestic violence has many names; family violence, wife or child beating, and domestic abuse. Spouse abuse talks about abuse from a marital or a dating partner in an intimate relationship. Domestic violence is merely not just physical, but is any behavior that is intended to control another person through the use of verbal assaults. Domestic violence is a very important social issue because it has a large negative affect on the victims. Even though Domestic violence can be caused by either male or female it is usually caused by the male due to the large physical advantage. This essay will discuss the history of domestic violence, as well as explain the different types, and ways to prevent it. The history of domestic violence goes back to the beginning of man. Ever since life was created, inferior people were always taken advantage of by dominant people in society. Since men are stronger physically than women, the women were usually the inferior ones that were taken advantage of. If you go back to Roman Times, if a wife was to ever cheat on her husband in the past, she could be sentenced to death. During the middle ages, the husband had every right to abuse his wife. If you look back to the 1960’s and 1970’s, you will see that little was done to prevent or stop domestic violence. If the police...
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...considered short tempered. Parents these days are letting their children to or watch things that parent 20 years ago wouldn’t have watched themselves. This usually happened you would see a patient doing drugs in frant of their own kids, father abusing the mother. US researchers claim that emotional and behavioral problems have provoked violent behavior in children more than three times as it was before. Leppala, Jamie. "Is Children Behavior Better or Worse over the Years? - Essay." Is Children Behavior Better or Worse over the Years? - Essay. N.p., 11 Oct. 2015. Web. 08 Nov. 2015. With the passage of time and changing in society, the behavior in children also change. The article explained that in 1950s to 1990 it was okay for parents to punish their kids and some parents used belt across the butt to correct the behavior. In 1950s school could correct the kids behavior by hitting them with a rules but today school cannot hit a child or touched a child because that is abuse.(Bishop, par 1). Today society have been hard because both parents have to go work so they can raise their kids .According to Jill Bishop say “Children are raised by many varieties of caring adults:...
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...Nursing practice is the expectation of nurses, established by nursing staff and patients, which is the general standard accepted. Reflection allows a nurse to improve and advance their experiences.This essay aims to discuss patient abuse within aged care facilities and a nurses duty of care are two issues that allow a nurse to reflect and develop their practice skills and person-centered practice. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines elder abuse as a separate or continuous action, or where care is absent within a relationship that requires trust, resulting in physical and emotional violence towards the patient.(World Health Organization, 2018). Nurses hold a duty of care to their patients. They additionally carry a legal obligation...
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...Class/Group: Group E Module Title: Skills for Study for Foundation Business and Social Sciences Students Assessment: Final Essay Assignment Title: Describe and evaluate the benefits of zero-hours contracts to both employers and employees Tutor Name: Dan Spencer Student ID Number: 2229804 Date of Submission: Monday, October 19, 2015 Heather Stewart, an Observer's economics editor in the guardian stated,“Now we have at least 697,000 workers in the economy who don’t know how many hours they’re going to be working.” reference Zero hour contracts are flexible agreements between the employers and employees that do not include the employee’s number of working hours (OGL, 2015). This is considered a way to make fast and easy money. The employee only comes to work when called by the employer (Downie, 2013). Some zero hour contracts include holiday pay; however, they do not include sick leaves (CIPD, 2013). In the United Kingdom, about 697,000 people work on zero-hour contracts, which is 2.3% of the UK’s employment rate (BBC News, 2015). Many people from different careers are on zero hour contracts including low-paid jobs such as McDonalds’ employees as well as high-paid careers (Blanchard, 2015). Considering the advantages and disadvantages of zero hour contract on both the employer and employees, this essay argues that zero hour contracts should be banned. Some experts argue that zero hour contracts are advantageous to the employees...
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...the past few decades. They also affect from a colonisation process that destroyed their culture, tradition, language, politics and economy (Holland, Dudgeon & Milroy, 2013). Their life has been changed suddenly and has devastating effect on their mental and health well-being. This essay will elaborate the reasons including social and cultural factors contributing significantly higher rate of mental illness and suicidal behaviour and mental health plans that the government has adopted to prevent self-harm and increase mental awareness. There have been a few researches conducted about Aboriginal people’s suicidal behaviour and self-harm. The definition of mental illness has been updated and a few times for the last 50 years on a regular basis (Parker &Milroy, 2014). Mental illness is also known as mental health disorder and it is very common in Australia. Mental disorders as defined by WHO (2016) is “comprise a broad range of problems, with different symptoms. However they are generally characterized by some combination of abnormal thoughts, emotions, behaviour and relationship with others. Examples are schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disabilities and disorders due to drug abuse.” Almost relatively half of the population in Australia suffered affective or substance use disorder and anxiety between the age from 16 to 85 in some stage of their life (The Department of Health, 2014). According to Australian government (2013), 7% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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...of his life or destroy it all, this is the time when a person makes those friends who changes the how he looks at life and how he faces it. An adolescent's main goal these days is to fit in and not be different from their peers. In this paper I will explore the probabilities of the following grievances experienced by the adolescent youth which are drugs, suicide, and homelessness. : : Body of the Essay : : Adolescence is the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood; it generally refers to a period ranging from teen years through 20s. As now life is growing more complex, however, adolescents are increasingly cut off from the activities of their elders, leaving most young people with education as their sole occupation. Inexorably, this has isolated many of them from the adult world and has prolonged their adolescence. Now almost all over the world the adolescent years have become marked by violence to an alarming degree. The phenomenon of teenage suicide has become particularly disturbing, but risk-taking behaviors of many sorts can be observed, including alcohol and drug abuse. Adolescents only want to have fun and go to parties. They get addicted to drugs and start to revolve their lives around drugs. Some get arrested and others encounter death. Addiction is so powerful that it takes control of people's brains and only tells them to do wrong. Drugs are highly Addictive, and most of the adolescents main goal is to fit in the group by doing what the whole group does, this...
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...Ulises Rosas-Rivera Professor Adrianna Barkey English 101 3 February 2015 Human Traditions: A Violation of the Human Rights Human rights describe equal rights and freedom for everybody by the fact of being human and without distinction of any kind of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other options. However, many people have always suffered from the lack of them throughout history. Both foot binding and female circumcision are good examples of violation of the human rights. In the essays “Footbinding” by John King Fairbank and “Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Rights” by Frances A. Althaus, the authors described each tradition as a violation of human rights. In today’s life there still many violations against human rights. Women and children are the ones who suffered the most. In a world where male-dominated society still exist, and discrimination, both men and women nearly have no rights for their better lives because of lower education. Female Circumcision or Genital Mutilation (what it must be called), it has been practiced in most of the countries in Africa. The practice of this “tradition,” according to Frances A. Althaus, “is one element of a rite of passage preparing young girls for womanhood and marriage” (Althaus 242). This practice is a complete form of gender discrimination. To all of the societies in Africa, Genital Mutilation is an integral part in social context. Actually, it gives complete authority and control of the...
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...Use the heading, “Introduction.” (Center the heading and bold.) The subject of our group project is “Examining Portrayals of the Elderly in Advertising. period inside quotes”. no period outside quotes We have collected samples of advertisements and have analyzed the products with images of people involved in these advertisements. The age, use of stereotyping, race, and ethnicity Age and stereotyping have been examined through the comparison of these images to the concepts of ageing as presented in the text book “Human Development period inside quotes”. no period outside quotes [note: if you are going to mention “race” and “ethnicity” in the introduction, then mention these topics in the body of the essay---] Age (Center the heading and bold.) [note: Use headings to help the reader know what you are writing about--] There is a rapid increase in the number of oldest-old on the horizon (the baby boom generation) who make up most of the frail numbers in this group. There are a few videos we found on u-tube portraying the elderly for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVh2EGxEIyE Older adults do whatever they can to adapt their homes and activities to accommodate the changes that occur with age. Despite the challenges that arise due to physical changes, the death of a spouse or partner, sudden illness, or other events, nearly all older adults report that their very strong preference is that they age in place their own home. Doing so provides a sense of self-determination...
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...Human Rights Essay Northern Territory Intervention The Northern Territory Intervention was a series of emergency measures put in place which are designed to stabilise and protect communities in the identified crisis areas. The measures were targeted at confronting the welfare of indigenous children namely in the area of child abuse and family violence (Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2007). The measures to be included in the NTI (Northern Territory Intervention) ascribed by the national Government are as follows: * Introducing widespread alcohol restricitons on Northern Territory Aboriginal land; * Introducing welfare reforms designed to reduce the flow of cash going toward substance abuse and to ensure funds meant to be for children's welfare remained for that purpose; * Enforcing mandatory school attendance bridging family assistance and income support payments with school attendance for persons living on the allocated lands and by providing meals for children while at school; * Introducing mandatory health checks for all indigenous children to identify abuse and treat health problems; * Acquiring townships allocated by the Australian Government through a scheme involving five year leases including payment of just terms compensation; * As part of the immediate emergency response, increasing policing levels in prescribed communities, including requesting secondments from other jurisdictions to supplement NT resources, funded by the Australian...
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...Brett Burt SWK-414 International Social Development Session 3 2010. APA Date submitted: 17th December 2010. via EASTS I, Brett Burt, have read and understood the Charles Sturt University Plagiarism Policy. I declare that this assignment is my own original work and represents my intellectual property. It does not contain the work of others without appropriate reference being made. Essay Question ‘Critically discuss the meaning of international social work and social development and demonstrate your understanding of the integrated perspectives approach by analysing and applying to an issue such as local level development, poverty, post conflict reconstructions, forced displacement.’ International social work seems to mean different things to different people in different communities, across the globe. Even the term ‘social work’ is often hard to pin down in the Western tradition. The first ‘constant’ seems to be the history of the development of social work in Britain after the Industrial Revolution and then across the western world predominantly in the United States. Second, social work as a profession arose as the result of the issues thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, such as mass movements away from rural based living, agricultural jobs reduced, with massive technological innovations commencing as far back as the development of the steam engine. Third, social work as a profession is united by its values which are social justice and a need to...
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