When daily demands of caring for adults, whether they are elderly, have a mental or physical illness, or have substance abuse problems, are thrust onto a carer who has not received the correct training for the job, they will become frustrated, angry, tired or worn down by the demands of the job and this can lead to abusive behaviours by the care giver. Without correct training care givers may be unaware of available resources and assistance, if they have no training for managing people with difficult behaviours they may use physical force, which may be unintentional but in many cases it may be deliberate. A caregiver may also be under stress because they are not getting enough support from colleagues, or working in poor conditions, or someone may simply be unsuited to be a caregiver, making the caregiver become burned out, impatient and unable to keep from lashing out at the person they are caring
Forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults Types of abuse Abuse is mistreating another person by violating a person’s human and civil rights. The abuse can vary from treating someone with disrespect in a way which significantly affects the person's quality of life, to causing actual physical suffering. Abuse can happen to anyone, even in a healthcare setting such as, a residential or nursing home, a hospital, at a day care centre or an education environment, in supported housing or in the street. Vulnerable people are more at risk of being abused, such as people with learning, sensory or physical disability, older people who are more dependent on help from others. People with mental health problems or with dementia.
Safeguarding of vulnerable adults is the process of informing the relevant authority such as police and health officials' cases of abuse to the elderly citizens. A vulnerable adult is a person, who is or may be in need of community care services on the basis of mental or other disability, age or poor health. Vulnerable adults are adults who for various reasons can be more at risk of being abused, or are at risk of putting themself in danger. Either financially, sexually, physically, mentally, by neglect etc. Some things that make people vulnerable can be physical illnesses, physical disability (such as being unable to move, so unable to escape), inability to communicate, mental illness, learning disability, loss of a sense (hearing impairment or visual impairment).
According to continence nurses, as many as 70% of people with incontinence are affected by depressive illnesses. It is vital that people who are incontinent are given every opportunity to regain their continence. Individuals may avoid getting treatment for incontinence because they are too embarrassed to discuss their problem. It can severely restrict their social life and contact with others. Having had an embarrassing, humiliating experience of an ‘accident’ in public they live in constant fear of it happening again.
Mental illness may lead to families becoming withdrawn and having problems dealing with the illness of the loved one, sometimes families are no longer committed to taking risks participating in the mentally ill family member’s life, as they are scared of being hurt even more. All this can have a devastating effect on a family, it could result in the family members trying to help the mentally ill person in ways that couldn’t possibly work (may differ between people). The family may try to move to a different area, in an effort to get a fresh start, which could be worse for the person, in the sense that what is normal and secure is going to be gone and that they would become more insecure. Obviously people are different and families have different ways of dealing with illness, so results between people may vary, but evidently someone without a mentally ill family member could not begin to realise the struggle some people go through in dealing with illness within a family and how much respect should be shown to those who do have to deal with mental
2) Effects on rescue workers A condition known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can leave a rescue worker physically and mentally ill. This results in leaving them unhealthy and unfit which affects their job performance. The emergency services witness all kinds of injuries to victims such as bad burns or lose limbs of people, people dyeing at the scene, babies or children underneath rubble and many more. And when responding to the major incident it is their role and priority to deal with any causality that are harmed or are afflicted by the incident leaving them psychologically stressed. 3) Effects on communities Loss of law and order During or after a major incident loss of law and order can arise where the uniformed public service uses most of their human resources and were normal routines are disturbed.
Seniors with dementia experience the same prevalence of conditions likely to cause pain as seniors without dementia. Pain is often overlooked in older adults and, when screened for, often poorly assessed, especially among those with dementia since they become incapable of informing others that they're in pain. Beyond the issue of humane care, unrelieved pain has functional implications. Persistent pain can lead to decreased ambulation, depressed mood, sleep disturbances, impaired appetite and exacerbation of cognitive impairment and pain-related interference with activity is a factor contributing to falls in the elderly. Although persistent pain in the person with dementia is difficult to communicate, diagnose and treat, failure to address persistent pain has profound functional, psychosocial and quality of life implications for this vulnerable population.
Unit 5 Unit Code: HSC 24 Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care Julia Chown 1.1 Physical Abuse Physical abuse is one or more episodes of aggressive behaviour resulting in physical injury with possible damage to internal and external organs. It can be presented through actual slapping, punching, pinching or kicking or through techniques used to lift a client or misuse of medication. An example of Physical Abuse could be where an elderly person could be living with younger members of family, perhaps with a mother with small children who rather smack or scold her children take her physical frustrations out on her older mother. A care worker who is overworked and undertrained could be using inappropriate lifting techniques on a client. Lack of communication in a care home setting, could result in clients being over or under medicated on a regular basis.
Once diagnosed, the stigma starts and it becomes difficult for them to hold a job or to find a job. Support is needed to encourage compliance with their mental health care such as attending regular psychiatric appointments so that their symptoms are monitored and managed. Medication compliance is a major issue with these patients. Without the proper medication regimen, these patients can be dysfunctional and could not hold a job or interact socially. They may become dysfunctional as husbands, wives, or parents.
Many of the victims never report the crime because the perpetrator is a family member or friend of the family. Also I found there is little to no resource for victims to recover from the sexual trauma, such as mental health services, lack of cultural knowledge or cultural sensitivity, lack of interpreters and other outreach programs. The disruption of tribal tradition set the stage for addictions to alcohol, substance abuse, incest, violence, and sexual abuse. Sexual assault is a traumatic event for the victim and has long term consequences that have devastating psychological, social, and interpersonal health responses. It is important that individuals, family members, and society need to break the cycle of sexual assault by addressing these violent acts that cause unhealthy, damaging, and long-term