Educational Nursing Strategies: Prevention of Elder Abuse and Neglect

Canadas population is ageing. Along with the sum up population of antiquatedly, the rate of step and drop down in long depot care facilities has risen proportionately, and nursing practice is presented with formidable challenges that call for barroom of elder abuse.Recent studies in the literature on elder abuse and neglect emerge with consistent inferences that primary care workers in long status facilities are complicated by an understaffed and unprepared workforce that escape the specific knowledge and training to successfully prevent and reputation elder abuse and neglect. The purpose of this paper is to explore the strategies to improve reporting, increase awareness, and talk terms elderly abuse in long term facilities.IntroductionStatistics Canada (2005), predicted a tangible growth in the senior population in Canada from 3.5 million people in 1996 to 6.9 by 2021. The aging population is suppuration globally, and society places dandy demands upon the health care system to meet the needs of elder persons (Zamaal, 2006, Pg 2.).Statistics Canada (2007), account more than 150,000 Canadian seniors are now living in residential care facilities (p.16). An already overwhelmed healthcare system with a critical nursing and staffing shortage now faces the special needs of a continuing growing population with specific and substantial needs.As Canadians increase their life spans, the demands placed on institutional facilities to deliver quality care of elder residents becomes critical in educational and training planning (Zamaal, 2006, p.5). Abuse of erstwhile(a) people is a complex phenomenon which in around instances will require complex streak and management strategies (British Geriatrics Society, 2002, p. 313).The dependence of an elderly person can increase her risk to violence by causing a strain on family relationships that escalates as the older person becomes more vulnerable and requires more care. At the very core of abuse is this fundame ntal loss of respect for older people andtheir resultant vulnerability (British Geriatrics Society, 2002, p. 313).Many victims do not report the abuse from families, and the problem is complicated with their dependence on the perpetrator, especially if the abuse comes from an adult child, friend, or persons held in a trusted position ( guinea pig focussing on Ageing and Older People, 2006).According to a study (Wolf, 2004), a soft survey of Canadian elders showed that 4.0 percent of older adults surveyed had been abused at some time by a family member or caregiver (p. 39).According to the National Advisory Council on Aging (2006), Canadas abuse and neglect of the elderly are thought to be seriously under-reported, so statistics are unreliable, due to surveys that capture only what the victims want to disclose, while police data spread abroad only the abuse that comes to their attention.