History Main / ElderAbuse

* {{Pathfinder}}: The Stag Lord, StarterVillain of the ''Kingmaker'' adventure path keeps his elderly father, Nugrah, in a cage, and regularly beats and abuses him. This is in a large part revenge for the horrific abuse that Nugrah himself doled out on his son while he was growing up.

Like any other abuse there are several different types of elder abuse. The most frequent definition is given as "[[http://www.who.int/ageing/projects/elder_abuse/en/ a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person]]" and the subtypes are by and large the same ones as within AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse. As with those, they can overlap:

* One episode of ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'' featured Victor, GrumpyOldMan ''par excellence'', helping to liberate a bunch of rest home residents from their cruel caretakers, in his personl CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* The verbal, psychological, financial, and physical abuse of Sandy by his son, the local vicar, Ashley in ''{{Emmerdale}}'' was a story arc.
* ''TheGoldenGirls'' has an episode that focuses on elder abuse.

* Dóris in the Brazilian soap opera MulheresApaixonadas was famous for abusing her grandparents.

When you hear the term "victim of abuse" who do you picture? Someone being beaten or otherwise mistreated by [[DomesticAbuse their partner]], a child or teenager being [[AbusiveParents harmed, threatened,]] or [[ParentalNeglect neglected by their parents]]? Yes these are all real, and horrible, truths - however there are others who can frequently find themselves victims of abuse, and what is one such group in society that does often find themselves in this scenario?

The elderly. Older people are often vulnerable, especially those who have Alzheimers or some other form of dementia, or who have communication issues which can make it difficult or even impossible for them to speak out against their abusers. Even older people who don't have dementia or other issues can sometimes find it difficult to get out of such a scenario, especially if their abuser is a primary care giver and they have mobility problems. Then there's the fact that their abusers could be their children, and their natural parental instinct to protect their child and therefore resist the urge to report the situation to the authorities could very well be in play.

Like any other abuse there are several different types of elder abuse, the most frequent definition is given as "[[http://www.who.int/ageing/projects/elder_abuse/en/ a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust which causes harm or distress to an older person]]" and the subtypes are by and large the same ones as within AbusiveParents and DomesticAbuse and as with those they can overlap:

* Emotional and Psychological Abuse - manipulating someones emotions so that they do things for you or by making them feel terrible about themselves, playing mind games

When elder abuse appears on television it can be portrayed in several different ways. Sometimes it appears in a "VerySpecialEpisode" manner, written in by the creators to attempt to highlight the issue. However other times there are cases where it is PlayedForLaughs, used as a throw away joke and forgotten about - the primary type in this category tends to be neglect and sometimes verbal abuse.

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* In the ''TheSimpsons'' sometimes shows the Springfield Retirement Castle where Abe "Grandpa" Simpson lives as having rather neglectful staff in many episodes when it comes to the residents emotional needs, in one episode the staff even destroy the Wii Lisa gave them. Also the Simpsons family would seemingly be happy to leave Grandpa in there and never see him at all, at one point Homer even tried to light a pile of junk on fire, which his dad was buried in. It was implied he knew his father was in said pile of junk.

* ''{{The X-Files}}'' episode "Excelsis Dei" was about an eponymous nursing home where the residents were often mentally and sometimes physically abused by the staff. A few get a rather supernatural form of revenge though.

* In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', Happy's mother ends up in a retirement home run by a sadistic orderly. He not only verbally abuses the residents, but forces them to make knock off wallets as well.

* In the ''TheSimpsons'' sometimes shows the Springfield Retirement Castle where Abe "Grandpa" Simpson lives as having rather neglectful staff in many episodes when it comes to the residents emotional needs, in one episode the staff even destroy the Wii Lisa gave them. Also the Simpsons family would seemingly be happy to Grandpa in there and never see him at all, at one point Homer even tried to light a pile of junk on fire, which his dad was buried in. It was implied he knew his father was in said pile of junk.

* In the ''{{ER}}'' episode "Refusal of Care" Abby suspects one patient, an elderly woman on hunger strike attempting to prevent the deportation of her son, is a victim of this when said son shows up and appears to care little about the woman's predicament.
* Elder abuse has been the theme/motif of many an episode of various ''LawAndOrder'' series' episodes.

The elderly. Older people are often vulnerable, especially those who have Alzheimers or some other form of dementia, or who have communication issues which can make it difficult or even impossible for them to speak out against their abusers. Even older people who don't have dementia or other issues can sometimes find in difficult to get out of such a scenario, especially if their abuser is a primary care giver and they have mobility problems. Then there's the fact that their abusers could be their children, and their natural parental instinct to protect their child and therefore resist the urge to report the situation to the authorities could very well be in play.

The elderly. Older people are often vulnerable, especially those who have Alzheimers or some other form of dementia, or who have communication issues which can make it difficult or even impossible for them to speak out about against their abusers. Even older people who don't have dementia or other issues can sometimes find in difficult to get out of such a scenario, especially if their abuser is a primary care giver and they have mobility problems. Then there's the fact that their abusers could be their children, and their natural parental instinct to protect their child and therefore resist the urge to report the situation to the authorities could very well be in play.

* ''GodOfWar 2'' gets the player to partake in elder abuse via a quick time event in which you have to brutally beat and kill a helpless protesting eldery scholar in order to get him to read a book you can't.

* In the ''TheSimpsons'' sometimes shows the Springfield Retirement Castle where Abe "Grandpa" Simpson lives as having rather neglectful staff in many episodes when it comes to the residents emotional needs, in one episode the staff even destroy the Wii Lisa gave them. Also Homer would seemingly be happy to leave his father in there and never see him at all, at one point Homer even tried to light a pile of junk on fire, which his dad was buried in. It was implied he knew his father was in said pile of junk.

When you hear the term "victim of abuse" who do you picture? Someone being beaten or otherwise mistreated by [[DomesticAbuse their partner]], a child or teenager being [[AbusiveParents harmed, threatened,]] or [[ParentalNeglect neglected by their parents]]? Yes these are all real, and horrible, truths however there are others who can frequently find themselves victims of abuse and one such group in society that does often find themselves in this scenario?

* ''SevenPounds'': Tim decides against donating one of his organs to a retirement home director after finding out the home mistreats their patients.

* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' eventually Francis gets Commandant Edwin Spangler fired as the head of his MilitarySchool but then gets him placed in a retirement home instead where he proceeds to engage in elder abuse as per his [[SadistTeacher sadist]] [[DrillSergeantNasty tendencies]].

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* In the ''TheSimpsons'' sometimes shows the Springfield Retirement Castle where Abe "Grandpa" Simpson lives as having rather neglectful staff in many episodes when it comes to the residents emotional needs, in one episode the staff even destroy the Wii Lisa gave them. Also Homer would seemingly be happy to leave his father in there and never see him at all, at one point Homer even tried to light a pile of junk on fire, which his dad was buried in. It was implied he knew his father was in said pile of junk.

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