Introduction
The purposeful imposition of harm, unjustified imprisonment, coercion, or brutal penalties that may cause suffering, bodily injury, or psychological trauma in old people is known as victimization of the elderly population. Will full ignorance of services and products intended to help the aged is one of the other characteristics of elder violence (Yan, Chan, & Tiwari, 2015). As a result, older people experience pain, dissatisfaction, or mental suffering. The caretaker's incapacity to comply with the requirements of the old, harsh treatment, as well as errors or acts that amount to the negligence of the elder people, may all be considered forms of abuse. Sexual, mental, and physical violence against the senior citizen, as well as economic or commercial exploitation, are all examples of elder abuse. In this paper, efforts to resolve the issue, service delivery structure, organizational structure, short term and the long-term plan will be discussed.
Efforts To Resolve The Problem
With time as age increases the need for services and specific organizations that will assist the elder population to live longer and increase their standard of living is enormously required.
The Service Delivery Model
It is one such measure that will help the elderly victimized population to live freely and get person-centered care. Such patient-centered care in the service delivery model is more efficient effort to resolve the problem as it emphasise on physical and psychological interventions to help victimized people (Van Orden & Conwell, 2016). These service delivery models assist in enhancing the quality of life, improving the functional outcomes, helping them to get health services in need, reduced the cost of services that they opted for. The two care delivery structures that elderly people can opt for are integrated geriatric care and integrated palliative care. These structures help elderly victimized population enhance their quality of life which includes a reduction in the mortality of these people (Evans, et al., 2019).
Organizational Structure
Short Term Plan To Resolve The Issue
The national plan will assist the government of Australia to eradicate elderly abuse in the nation through operating its primary interventions which can be observed as a short-term plan. This primary intervention is confined to a particular community or targeted population. The first step of this plan is to enhance the autonomy of the elderly population and promote elderly agencies which eventually will help in reducing the ageism that has been identified as the factor or cause of abuse (Dong, Chen, & Simon, 2014). The second step of the plan is to make the Australians aware or educate the person about the abuse that the elderly population is suffering from and about the vulnerable situations that leads to abuse which is not acceptable in society. In the third step, the government of Australia will give the power to the general public and victims of the abuse of the nation to report any abusive incident that they encounter and enable them to initiate support for themselves and for their relatives who have been victimized. The last step defines the duty of the government to provide financial as well as human support to the victimized or vulnerable elderly people for enhancing their safety and enabling them to work efficiently (Judges, Gallant, Yang, & Lee, 2017). For this purpose, preventive, educational, as well as prosecutory interventions, are needed for the abusers.
Long Term Plan To Reduce Elderly Victimization
The long-term plan is a part of a national plan to eradicate elderly victimization in Australia which targets the vulnerable population of the nation and intervene at an early stage to reduce the incidence or to restrain the occurrence of elderly abuse incidents which might have taken place in the absence of such interference. The first step of this plan is related to screening and forming risk assessment strategies that will prevent and intervene in elder abuse, being implied in a health care setting. In the first step, the elderly population who might become the victim of the abuse must be screened for the risk factors and the actions that have to be taken in case of future abuse against the elderly victim will be made aware (Yon, Ramiro-Gonzalez, Mikton, Huber, & Sethi, 2019). This process can prove to be effective if the evaluation of the process is being done at regular intervals of time. Additionally, for the process to be impactful the experts appointed must be skilled and trained to do such tasks and are aware of the rules and regulations of the health care settings. Another step is the implementation of social support strategies to reduce the burden of the care provider to prevent elderly abuse. The person taking care of the elderly might unintentionally abuse the elderly person due to long hours of work and increased workloads which lead to stress and depression among the care providers. Thus the government must appoint other trained and skilled support persons that will support the caregivers to reduce their workloads. Moreover, many helpline services must be initiated in the nation for elder people to get the support which consequently prevents the abuse (Castle, Ferguson-Rome, & Teresi, 2015).
Conclusion
The population's increasing ageing is currently contributing to an increase in elder abuse instances. Elder harassment is not frequently identified due to the lack of research on it, many elderly individuals are cognitively impaired, or they have particular cultural beliefs. There are many distinct types of abuse and neglect, but financial exploitation is growing most quickly, and psychological abuse is occurring most frequently. As a result, in order to decrease these incidents, organization structures and models of service delivery should be changed to put the sufferers and their requirements first. Additionally, in order to address this problem, the government of the country's short- and long-term objectives must be properly carried out.
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