BY VINCENT J. VITIELLO
Some are beaten, are swindled out of life savings, are belittled or called names, are denied proper medical care or sufficient food, live in deteriorated and infested housing that threatens their health and safety, are denied the right to decide where to live or with whom to spend time, decay in waste and want because they are unable to meet personal needs, and have no one around to help. Elder abuse takes many forms, and it can threaten any older American.1
Recognizing the importance of using standard definitions of elder abuse for compiling national data, the National Aging Resource Center on Elder Abuse developed the following seven categories of domestic elder maltreatment:
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