Neglect of the aged

Individual and social motivation to care for the elderly is reduced to guilt or political expediency. What care is given encourages the elderly to become dependent on their need for care.

1. Professional misconduct by nurses
2. Neglected relations
3. Abusive treatment of the aged

1. Neglect of elderly in institutional care
2. Abandoned elderly

1. Vulnerability of the elderly under states of emergency
2. Loneliness in old age
3. Limited strength of elders
4. Limited social guidance by older generations
5. Inadequate welfare services for the aged
6. Boredom of the elderly

1. Unmeaningful social roles for the aged
2. Generation communication gap
3. Disrespect for elders
4. Dependency of the elderly
5. Conflicting social service ideologies

1. Burden of caring for elderly relations

1. Giving attention to elders
2. Ensuring a healthy environment
3. Caring for the aged

1. Reduction
2. Neglect
3. Motivation
4. Demotivation
5. Care
6. Age