Legal Issue
An ongoing process that involves learning about types of decisions related to health care, decisions with family members and health care providers, and making the wishes known in legal documents.
What is "Advance Care Planning"?
Term used to indicate illegal taking, misuse, or concealment of funds, property, or assets of a senior for someone else's benefit.
What is "exploitation"?
An advance directive that guides decisions about care that is provided or withheld under certain circumstances.
What is a "Living Will"?
The failure by those responsible to provide food, shelter, health care, or protection for a vulnerable elder.
What is "neglect"?
The other term for "Health Care Proxy".
What is "Surrogate health care decision-maker"?
Having noted similar bruises on both upper arms indicate which type of injury?
What is "intentionally inflicted by others" type of injury?
An ongoing process where a person becomes increasingly aware of what is important and just.
What is "Values Clarification"?
Considered a unique type of elder abuse that occurs in all types of long-term care settings.
What is "resident-to-resident mistreatment" or"resident-to-resident abuse, violence, or aggression?
A legal mandate for advance directives.
What is Patient Self-Determination Act?
Refers to elder abuse statutes or elder abuse reporting laws.
What is "adult protective services laws"?
A personal freedom to direct one's own life.
What is "autonomy"?
The failure of a person to perform essential self-care tasks.
What is "self-neglect"?
The ability to handle one's affair in a responsible manner.
What is competency?
A desertion of a vulnerable elder by anyone who has assumed responsibility or custody of that person.
What is "abandonment"?
Any action or procedure that prevents a person's free body movement to a position of choice.
What is "physical restraint"?
Refers to elder abuse
What is "elder mistreatment"?
A measure of the older adult's ability to make an informed, logical decision about an aspect of health care.
What is decision-making capacity?
Humiliation, intimidation, and threatening are examples of what type of abuse?
What is "emotional" abuse?
Refers to methods of bypassing the upper gastrointestinal tract to deliver nutritional substances.
What is "artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH)"?
A condition that is associated with elder abuse, both as a risk factor for self-neglect and a consequence of all types of abuse.
What is "depression"?