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Domestic
Violence Any Family, Any Age.
Domestic
Violence does not only happen amongst young people. It can occur in older
families too. For many older victims of domestic violence, there has been
ongoing violence for many years, yet for others, it does not begin until later
in life. Domestic Violence is the wrongful exercise of power and control of one
person over the other Various
ways that Domestic Violence can be perpetrated include:
Slapping,
hitting, bruising, beating, pushing, grabbing, pinching, or any other
intentional act that causes someone physical pain, injury or suffering. Physical
abuse also includes excessive forms of restraint used to confine someone against
their will, i.e. tying, chaining, or locking someone in a room, force feeding.
Can
be verbal or non-verbal; it includes insult, yelling and threats of harm, name
calling, put downs, humiliating, intimidating, treating an older person like a
child.
Is
any sexual activity to which the older or dependent adult does not consent to or
is incapable of consenting. Non-consensual sexual activity includes; unwanted
touching, rough and unpleasant sex, forced or coerced sex, coerced nudity,
sodomy….
Misappropriation
of property, money or valuables, forced changes to a will or other legal
documents, manipulating the older adult for the financial benefit or material
gain of another….
Is
the refusal to allow a person access to family, friends, social activities, and
talking to anyone. Preventing a person from receiving his or her mail or
telephone calls….
Failure
to provide a person with food, water, clothing, shelter, personal hygiene,
medication, personal safety and health services…. Is
this happening to you?
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