By Jacki Pritchard
Older males may possibly, like older girls, be sufferers of abuse - but there was little in both examine or carrier provision to mirror this. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twelve older males who've skilled abuse, Jacki Pritchard offers much-needed useful tips for care execs, managers and coverage makers operating with this workforce. She describes the several sorts of abuse skilled through the boys, that can contain not just monetary, actual, emotional and sexual abuse, but in addition actual and emotional forget, and is going directly to identify intimately the desires of older male sufferers of abuse and the way they need to be addressed. in addition to having their emotional wishes and their desire for help over previous abuse met, the boys want a actual position of defense, treatment and the cultural knowledge and non-stop aid carers. This booklet provides transparent instructions for either the preliminary evaluation of want and for strong perform within the long-term. it's going to permit all these operating with older humans to appreciate larger the phenomenon of the abuse of older males and to use this figuring out to powerful provider provision. This new sequence types a collection of obtainable books for practitioners, managers and coverage makers operating in social and healthiness care, probation and criminology. every one booklet attracts on a key piece of analysis or present perform when it comes to violence and abuse to offer sensible suggestions on new methods of operating with either sufferers and perpetrators to result in confident swap.
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5). 5 Ages of male victims Physical or medical conditions It has been argued that the older elderly are at risk of being abused because their physical and/or mental dependence may cause stress for their carers. I have argued elsewhere that this is far too simplistic (Pritchard 1995, 2000). Yet physical and mental health are important factors as they can make an older person vulnerable and an easy target for abuse. 5, which caused social workers to describe their condition on monitoring forms as ‘frail and elderly’.
They offered to run errands for him, but in fact were taking money from him and stealing possessions from inside the house. The couple had also been drawing money out of his Post Office account. Fred was admitted to care just before Christmas 48 MALE VICTIMS OF ELDER ABUSE when home care workers found that there was no food in the house and he had no money left. Mac and Simon were financially abused because their abusers had addictions to drugs and needed to finance their habits. Mac was abused by his son, who was addicted to heroin and also had an alcohol problem.
Vernon talked about life after his mother had died when he was 11 years old. His father, whom he considered to be ‘bad’, brought in a housekeeper, but Vernon did not get on with her family. He was extremely unhappy and was glad to go into the army when he was 16 years old. He still feels resentment towards his father and cannot forgive him for his treatment. Vernon frequently talks in the survivors’ 1 group about his father attending his wedding but walking out before the reception took place. He says he ‘would never treat my own children like he has treated me’.