Elders are Victims - Love and Protection are Their Survival

If you were involved in an accident and were seriously hurt, here are some most difficult questions you will face: Will I ever get well? Will my life be the same as it was before? Can I do the things I once have done?

As these thoughts appear before you, they may forever linger in your mind. Please allow yourselves to get involved with the elderly abused people.

Many of them are living under a silent pressure that most people may not even be aware of. The fact is that when the hurt strikes the innocent, they make a loud cry; the cry that cannot be ignored by the next victim.

Elderly abuse is another kind of drastic killer, just as drugs and AIDS are threats to our society and this new generation. Once the individual has been exposed to the tragic life, once they are under pressure of being mistreated, the scar may never heal. Eventually the pain will continue to grow bigger and bigger. There are five out of fifty that might even survive.

These are some circumstances that lie under two conditions which include their environment and surroundings. These play a great role in some homes where people are mistreated, pushed aside, and neglected by families, especially ones that are closely related.

Some of them are not properly cared for and have to face so many different changes. These changes may affect their minds. They may cause mental, emotional, and physical damage to the older people. A lot of anxieties can hurt as m8uch as failing to give proper attention.

Actually, some families really don't have the patience and time to care for the older adults. Sometimes they are placed in rest homes or nursing homes; in the old days these homes were called county homes. People were put aside for various reasons, some being because the families just didn't want to be bothered with the elderly ones. Now the situations have gotten more critical. Families have to work for a living. Some have families of their own. Sometimes the house gets overcrowded, therefore, it is not enough room for grandma and grandpa. At this point they get in the way around the house.

Sadly a story was told by a lady, in your young days, who had three children. Her husband died, so she had to raise the youngsters all alone. The oldest was a boy aged 15, the next oldest was a boy aged 14, and the youngest was a girl 10 years of age. Mother worked very hard trying to provide the children. She went to people's houses looking for work: washing windows outside in the cold winter time, scrubbing floors on her knees and saying within herself, "I want my children to grow up to be somebody. I am struggling for them to go to school so they can get an education, get a nice job, and build a nice home so I can maybe live with them because I do not want to go to the rest home". As the years went by and the children grew up, the oldest son finished high school successfully and went to college for four years. He also went to medical school where he became a doctor. Afterwards he built a nice beautiful home and shortly was married to a lady, who was a secretary at a bank. The other son finished high school but didn’t make a successful life for himself. The daughter made it to the eleventh grade. She got involved with a no-good boy and had a few kids but never married. She ended up on welfare to get help for her kids.