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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:
- Physical Abuse: 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.
- Emotional Abuse: 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.
- Sexual Abuse: 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….
- Financial Abuse: 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….
- Social Abuse: 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….
- Neglect: Failure to provide a person with food, water, clothing, shelter, personal
hygiene, medication, personal safety and health services….
Is this happening to you?
- Do you feel isolated? Are you being deprived of the outside world?
- Are you being deprived private space of time?
- Are you being controlled and not allowed to make decisions for yourself?
- Is your spouse, family members or carer withholding or mismanaging your medications
or your money?
- Are you being deprived of good personal hygiene or proper cleanliness when you need
assistance?
- Does your spouse, family members or carer make false accusations against you?
- Is your spouse, family members or carer verbally, mentally, emotionally, physically
or sexually abusing you?
Remember your bill of rights:
- I have the right to be safe.
- I have the right to a violent free environment and lifestyle.
- I have the right to equality.
- I have a right to be appreciated.
- I have a right to my dignity.
- I have a right to make choices.
- I have a right to receive empathy and warmth.
- I have a right to be accepted as I am.