Neglect Lack of staffing, lack of training, or lack of funding often leads to neglect of elder and dependent residents and physical suffering like bedsores, malnutrition, and sometimes death. This includes cases where the premises are hazardous and elder and dependent residents are injured in a fall as a result.   2. Psychological abuse This includes cases where employees of nursing home or senior care facilities are emotionally abusing their vulnerable charges through various types of harassment, including insults, scolding, and humiliation.  3. Financial abuse This includes cases where an employee or owner of a nursing home takes advantage of their position of trust and commits fraud or financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult.   4. Physical abuse This includes cases where a nursing home employee or owner physically assaults an elder resident or dependent adult.  These cases typically occur when there has been negligence in hiring, negligence in performing background checks and negligence with training.  Frustration and stress experienced by staff under these conditions may lead to verbal abuse, a hostile environment for residents and ultimately physical abuse.    5. Sexual abuse This includes cases where there is negligence in background checking, hiring, supervising, and training employees that can create opportunities for sexual predators to be hired, who can take advantage of their position in the facility to sexually abuse vulnerable elder residents and dependent adults.