History Main / ElderAbuse

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'': For fuck's sake, don't abuse the elderly in front of Kazuma Kiryu. You likely won't live to even be elderly yourself if he finds out, because if he does, he'll pound you into hamburger. Just like [[WouldHurtAChild child abuse]], elder abuse is a MASSIVE [[BerserkButton berserk button]] for him.

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

* 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.

* 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 depraved doctor Cioccolata in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' used to psychologically torture elderly patients at a nursing home with the intention of driving them to suicide and [[SnuffFilm film their deaths]]. [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath He]] [[HateSink gets]] [[RasputinianDeath what]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he]] [[KarmicDeath deserves]].]]

* At some point during ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' Rita Skeeter went to Bathilda Bagshot’s house [[note]] whose age is never specified but given that she’d known the 115 year old Dumbledore as a kid, implies that she’s probably at least 130[[/note]] bewitched her into telling her salacious information and then stole from her. Several people comment that at that point Bathilda wasn’t all there and wouldn’t have given up that information had she had her facilities.

* The depraved doctor Cioccolata in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' used to psychologically torture elderly patients at a nursing home with the intention of driving them to suicide and [[SnuffFilm film their deaths]]. [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath He]] [[HateSink gets]] [[RasputinianDeath what]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he]] [[KarmicDeath deserves]].]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Joel Heyday attacks and threatens his elderly mother once he gets out of jail. Once she tells him he won't get a penny of inheritance when she dies he informs her that he's going to kill his nieces and then her in order to inherit everything she owns.

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* ''Film/TheBalladOfNarayama'': Takes this trope to the extreme by depicting the ancient Japanese myth of "obasute", in which old people are taken up a mountainside and left there to die after they reach 70.
* ''Film/SevenPounds'': Tim decides against donating one of his organs to a retirement home director after finding out the home mistreats their patients.
* In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', Happy's grandmother 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 a deleted scene shown mostly in televised versions, Happy repays the orderly for his abuse by throwing him out of a window.

* In ''Film/KnivesOut'', Joni had committed financial abuse against Harlan, who provided tuition money to her daughter's school. His lawyer was wiring money directly to the school, but his accountant had also been wiring money to Joni under the guise that she was using it to pay for the tuition. In reality, she was using it to keep her sham business afloat.

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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. Other times there are cases where it is PlayedForLaughs, used as a throwaway joke and forgotten about -- the primary type in this category tends to be neglect and sometimes verbal abuse. Contrast NeverMessWithGranny and WhenEldersAttack.

SubTrope to WouldHarmASenior.

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. Other times there are cases where it is PlayedForLaughs, used as a throwaway joke and forgotten about -- the primary type in this category tends to be neglect and sometimes verbal abuse.

!!!Examples:

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'': For fuck's sake, don't abuse the elderly in front of Kazuma Kiryu. You won't LIVE to be elderly if he finds out, cause he'll pound you into burger, elder abuse is a MASSIVE [[BerserkButton berserk button]] for him.

* ''VideoGame/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 elderly scholar in order to get him to read a book you can't.

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* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In a short comic, [[OmnicidalManiac Judge Death]] tried to use a teleporter to escape imprisonment in Mega-City One, but somehow wound up at a senior citizens gathering in the late 20th century UK. He proceeded to grant everyone an early ticket to the grave before Dredd showed up to recapture him and take him back.
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* The depraved doctor Cioccolata in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' used to psychologically torture elderly patients at a nursing home with the intention of driving them to suicide and [[SnuffFilm film their deaths]].

* The myth of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute ubasute]] (also called "obasute"), where the elderly are left to die in a forest or somewhere remote. Reasons as to why depended on the story but there's a story about how a ruling official commanded that a village does this, to which a son pretends to but he still goes to the forest to provide for her and get advice on how accomplish certain tasks. When the ruler asks how he managed to accomplish the tasks, the protagonist tells him how, to which the ruler accepts and rescinds his order to abandon the elderly to die (allowing the old woman to come home).