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What types of adult abuse occur in RCFs?
Financial Abuse or Exploitation: stealing or taking money or property without permission, misrepresenting usage of funds, forgery, denying access to funds or property.

Caregiver Neglect: failure to provide appropriate and adequate care, such as proper nutrition, clothing, medication, not taking resident to the bathroom, not turning residents, not answering calls for help or providing other necessary assistance with daily living.

Physical Abuse: hitting, pushing, kicking, punching, slapping, pinching, rough handling, burning, biting, beating, hair-pulling, improper use of physical or chemical restraints and other physical aggressions.

Emotional Abuse: verbal harassment, insults, threats to physical being, threatening residents with discharge, threatening other forms of punishment, isolation, degradation, talking to residents like they are a child, using demeaning language, manipulation, ignoring residents and other transgressions against an individual’s mental health.

Sexual Abuse: inappropriate touching, forced sexual contact, unwanted sexualized behavior, photographing individuals in suggestive positions, forced viewing of pornography and other non-consensual sexual activity.

What injuries do adults suffer?
Financial Injuries include loss of money, property, and assets.

Physical Injuries include bruises, broken bones, loss of limbs or body function and death.

Emotional Injuries include short-term crisis reactions and long-term traumatic stress reactions.

Social Injuries include stigmatization by society, family, & friends, and unequal access to justice.

What short-term crisis reactions can abused adults experience?
Physical Reactions to trauma typically occur in the following order:

- Reconstruction of Healthy Life Balance

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