Principles of safeguarding

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm..

Sensory impairment could be a barrier to effective communication they can prevent service users and health care professionals from communicating correctly, this is because they interfere with a service user’s ability to send, receive and understand a message. According to Collins Education sensory impairment is the key issue why service users with sensory impairments are more exposed to ineffective care and their needs are not always met. This would make the service users have a low self-esteem because they will be left confused and unaware about their health.

There are certain groups of individuals that appear to be most at risk of abuse than others, and therefore more vulnerable. Vulnerable adults can be abused in different ways for different reasons.

By the fact that they are sometimes weak and vulnerable, people can assault or cause them physical harm.

you must do your upmost best to reassure the individual as well as you can, and tell them that you have to pass the delicate information on

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

Those who are in an authoritative position over someone and in a position of care for example, family members, friends or professional health workers (such as a carer, staff member in a residential or nursing home or hospital), can put vulnerable people at risk of abuse. Because of the

“Abuse is a pattern of behavior used to gain and maintain power and control, and it can come in many forms (“Is This

Those that are affected are usually children, intimate partners or older adults. These victims of abuse are usually unable to fight back which causes them to be vulnerable to the abuser. Child abuse is usually caused by the parents who neglect or physically abuse the child. Women who are in a relationship may have experienced some type of

Abuse is behaviour towards a person which deliberately or unintentionally causes harm to them. It is a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights and in the worst cases can result in death.

counselling or giving them helpline numbers and trying to talk to them to let them know,

The need to control other people or degrade and belittle them often stems from a lack of self-confidence and low self-esteem. Abusers are psychologically and emotionally immature and may have been the victim of, or witnessed, an abusive relationship during childhood. As a result these people accept abusive behaviour as the norm. (McLeod, S. A. ,2012 ).

There have been theories that abuse comes from a feeling of lack of control, lack of power or due to a cycle of abuse in the perpetrator's life. Although the theories are plentiful, what is not subjective are the emotional and physical scars

Neglect: the failure to provide food, shelter, health care, or protection for a vulnerable elder.

Emotional Abuse is defined as words or behavior on the part of a parent/guardian/caretaker which create a damage to the