What is abuse?
Neglect
The Ann Craft Trust explains that neglect is a form of abuse that includes a number of acts of omission.
Examples of neglect include:
- Ignoring medical or physical care needs.
- Ignoring a person’s cultural, religious or ethnic needs.
- Failing to provide access to appropriate health, social care, or educational services.
- Withdrawing the necessities of life, such as medication, glasses, hearing aids, dentures, adequate nutrition, and heating.
- Refusing access to visitors.
- Ignoring or isolating a person.
- Preventing a person from making their own decisions.
- Everyone deserves privacy and dignity. We all have a long list of requirements that need to be met to secure our health, safety, and happiness. Neglect and acts of emission basically means failing to ensure an adult at risks’s privacy, dignity, and individuality.
Our short video below talks more about neglect, along with exploitation and domestic abuse and what to do if you are concerned.