Explain Factors That May Lead to Abusive Situations.

Abuse can happen anywhere anytime, but especially to vulnerable people, ie Children, elderly people, people with disabilities, people with learning difficulties. It can even happen in places people should be safe, ie hospitals, residential/ nursing homes, schools, daycare/ nurseries, centres etc.

This is because they have nobody to protect them, which leads to them becoming more likely to be abused. Abusers prey on vulnerable people to make their attacks easier and less of a challenge.

Neglect: medical condition deteriorating unexpectedly or not improving as expected, hypothermia or person cold or dressed inadequately, unexplained loss of weight, clothes or body dirty and smelly, delays in seeking medical attention

In the article, Abuser & Victim…Alike, the author argues that both the abuser and the victim share responsibility for their situations. This is only true if we choose to believe that such people voluntarily stay and allow the abuse to continue. In this sense, some truth might exist, however, we must remember the lack of control felt by each victim, as well as the emotional torment they experience that serves to trap them in their current situations. Alternatively, it would be difficult for the author to validate such a claim of shared responsibility if the abused were a child, disabled or mentally handicapped person. To a certain degree, the author himself contradicts his previous statement when he comments that “abusers have all the power”.

Abuse can occur from a lack of training or feeling they are superior so they feel they can abuse them because they are vulnerable.

An abuser may be – a relative, a partner, someone paid to provide care and services, a volunteer, a neighbour, a friend or strangers. So it’s important and it is your duty of care to provide good care. Some adults in the care home are less able to protect themselves than others and some may have difficulty making their wishes and feelings known. This may make them vulnerable to abuse.

The individuals more vulnerable to this abuse are elderly people, the ones that live alone, individuals with learning disabilities, and all disable people, individuals who do not have good support networks around them, and individuals being cared for at home who are reliant on another person for care and support.

Neglect occurs when a health professional, carer or family member fails to provide the level of support or care that that person needs. This neglect can be deliberate or as a result of ignorance of required standards and practices. Again this neglect can result in the failure to meet the person’s physical, medical, nutritional, educational, emotional or social needs.

Children in homes where there is abuse usually end up either, being abused themselves or being neglected. This is where they generally learn to become abusers themselves.

Abuse can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. However, it is so alarming that more and more elderly people suffer from abuse everyday. Many elderly adults are being abused in their homes and even in care facilities such as nursing homes responsible for their care. How can elderly groups be vulnerable to abuse and/or harm to self and others? And

. Abuse is the mistreatment or neglect of individuals. Abuse affects the elder populations because according to Census the greatest number and proportion of people age 65 and older (Statistics/Data, 2013). There are many types of elder abuse such as: physical, psychological, sexual abuse and caregiver neglect. Many older people are experiencing abuse because they cannot help themselves and

The perpetrators also portray several risk factors and these include circumstances that put them at the likelihood of abusing the elderly. The most common risk factors in this case are mental illness such as depression and anxiety as this triggers verbal and physical abuse; substance misuse and this has been linked with physical, emotional, sexual, financial and psychological abuse; and abuser dependency as their level of dependence threatens the well-being of the adult.

An individual may need care with daily living due to illness or disability – this can lead to them being more vulnerable to abuse because

It has been proven that most abusers have been abused at least one in their life. They also are very sorry and hate the way they have behaved and how they handled they are incident after it was

To start off, an abuser tends to frighten their victims and isolate them from all friends, family and loved ones. The reason behind isolating their victims