19.10.2014
UNIT 4: Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social Care
1.1 a. Physical abuse is physical force or violence that results in bodily injury, pain, or impairment. It includes hitting, biting, scratching, burning,twisting limbs, punching, slapping and inappropriate restraint.
b. Sexual abuse including rape and sexual assault or sexual acts to which the vulnerable adult has not consented, could not consent or was pressured into consenting.
c.Psychological abuse including emotional abuse, threats of harm, threats of leaving the person, stopping visits to or from family and friends, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, coercion, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation or withdrawal from services or support networks
d. Financial or material abuse including theft, fraud, exploitation, pressure in connection with wills, property, inheritance or financial transactions, or the misuse of property, possessions or benefits.
e. Institutional abuse occurs when a health/care/housing or other service routinely neglects individuals and/or violates their rights.
f. Self-neglect is a behavioral condition in which an individual neglects to attend to their basic needs, such as personal hygiene, appropriate clothing, feeding, or tending appropriately to any medical conditions they have.
g. Neglect is the failure to provide necessary care, assistance, guidance or attention that causes, or is reasonably likely to cause the person physical, mental or emotional harm or substantial damage to or loss of assets.Neglect includes denying the person any of the things that are essential to life, such as food, water, medications, medical treatment, therapy, nursing services, therapeutic and equipment aids, clothing, visits from people important to the older person, and rights.
1.2 Physical Abuse
Injuries that are the shape of objects.
Injuries in a variety of stages or injuries that have not received medical attention.
A person