Elder Abuse - Health Consequences

Health Consequences

The health consequences of elder abuse are very serious. Elder abuse can destroy an elderly person's quality of life in the forms of:

  • Declining functional abilities
  • Increased dependency
  • Increased sense of helplessness
  • Increased stress
  • Worsening psychological decline
  • Premature mortality and morbidity
  • Depression and dementia
  • Malnutrition
  • Death

The risk of death for elder abuse victims are three times higher than for non-vicitms.

Read more about this topic:  Elder Abuse

Famous quotes containing the words health and/or consequences:

    “Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
    —Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)