An endangered adult is a person threatened with harm by another person or persons. Abuse can also include self-neglect, a person that does not take care of himself properly. Although physical abuse may be readily detectable by bruises, scars, broken bones, or cuts, the other forms of abuse may be harder to detect and harder to cure. She usually lives with and is physically and emotionally dependent upon the abuser.
Most studies indicate the abuser to be the daughter or son of the victim.
However, any senior citizen could be the victim of continued abuse by another person. They are victims of senior abuse. Senior abuse, one of the last topics to come of the closet, is a fact of life. I told you not to do that. They may be overly medicated in order to be easily controlled.