Prevention violence against elderly people. Three guidelines: social awareness, professional training, and family support.
Keywords:
Violence, Prevention, Elderly people, Education, Training, Family, Quality of life.Abstract
In this article, I would like to share with the readers my worries about violence with the elderly. My work has been focus on the prevention of this kind of violence in the different modalities that it appears. Prevention is presented in this paper asan anticipation of the violence from three points of view: social awareness of this problem; social professional training and help to the families with elderly people depending on them. My purpose in this work is to inform, and to raise people awarenessand sensibility, towards this terrible problem. The paper finishes with the offerof some strategies for the prevention of this kind of violence and the proposal of somemeasures for the whole quality of life of the elderly, in order to allow then to reach a good level of wellness and satisfaction. Additionally, the author begs for avoidingthe violation of any kind of rights of the elderly people.Downloads
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2013-02-15
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