Elderly Abuse

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Before doing research on this topic, I would have said that the United States treats the elderly with passion and love, but I now know that I was wrong. The elderly people have been treated just as badly, if not worse then, in Japan. How could this be? The elderly are so innocent, loving, and have nothing but care for most people. How could anyone harm such a loving soul? These questions are more than likely going through many minds as I am writing this paper. In the United States most of the abuse has came from nursing homes, but in Japan more than likely the abuse is coming from the offspring of the elderly. Even though both governments’ officials are trying to pass new laws to protect the elderly, the abuse continues. There are groups that are forming up to help support the elderly in the United States. The people of Japan are not doing as much as they should because the abuse happens behind closed doors and the family member will more than likely just deny it.
Crimes that are committed against the elderly can be divided into two different categories. “The first crime includes conventional crimes such as robbery, theft, fraud, rape, and homicide. The second type of crime is more about the neglect and abuse” (James). These crimes happen more often with older people than they do with younger people because the elderly a lot of times have some type of disease that will prevent them from doing a lot of things and they are sometimes motionless. Therefore they cannot do anything about the robberies or the abuse. It would take a person with a very cold heart to be able to inflict so much pain on an innocent person. Why can’t the world just show love and happiness to its older generation?
The difference between the United States and Japan is that the children of the elderly are abusing them in Japan and in the United States nursing homes are abusing our elderly. “Of nursing home staff in 1989 40% admitted to committing at least one psychologically abusive act toward a resident and 10% admitted to physically abusing a resident in the preceding year” (Fischer). These people working in nursing homes are supposed to be taking care of our loved ones, but instead of taking care of our family members they are hurting them. According to Christie Fischer, a student studying elderly abuse at the University of South Dakota, the United States...

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...busing you or even stealing from you? More than likely you wouldn’t want to be treated this way, so the people of Japan and the United States need to stand up for our elderly because they are the ones that brought us to this lovely place and whenever we all get old we will not want to be treated like we are treating them now.

Works Cited
Ajima, Shinya. "Efforts Under Way to Stem Abuse of Elderly." INTERVENTION FACES OBSTACLES. 06 January 2005. 25 January 2005
Fischer, Christie. "ELDERLY ABUSE IN NURSING HOMES." 26 January 2005.
Green, Shane. “Hidden Abuse of Elderly Emerging Problem for Japan.” 26 January 2005. 21 June 2003.
James, Marianne Pinkerton. "The Elderly as Victims of Crime, Abuse, and Neglect." 1 February 2005.
“Roundup: Japan seeks efforts to stem abuse of elderly (part one).” Xinhua News Agency. 10 January 2005. Infotrac Online Database. Volpe Library, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tn. 2 February 2005.
“Roundup: Japan Seeks Efforts to Stem Abuse of Elderly (part two).” Xinhua News Agency. 10 January 2005. Infotrac Online Database. Volpe Library, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tn. 2 February 2005.

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