It’s a shameful fact of the elder care industry that sometimes the people who are hired to care for the elderly use their position to commit elder abuse. That’s why it’s so important for anyone working in this field to get elder abuse training so that they can recognize the signs and symptoms of this shameful dereliction of duty to the elderly. Really, it’s crucial that all caregiver training programs include information on the recognition of elder abuse as well as information about how to keep the elderly from being abused.

People who train to be caregivers learn about all kinds of subjects, everything from nutrition to skin care to maintaining wellness, but besides fall prevention in home care, home health care workers can receive no training more important than the prevention of elder abuse. It’s a real crime that people even have to think about this issue. After all, what could be more despicable than abusing a helpless elderly person? So if that’s your opinion, too, and you work with the elderly, you need to be vigilant and you need to know how to recognize the signs of elder abuse either from staff or from your clients’ friends and family members. Elder abuse is not acceptable no matter where or when it occurs.

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