Nursing home abuse occurs when there is injury or harm to a person carried out with the intention of causing suffering, pain, or impairment. The Administration on Aging defines abuse as the "willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or cruel punishment with resulting physical harm, pain, or mental anguish, or deprivation by a person, including a caregiver, of goods or services that are necessary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness." (3)