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Protecting the dignity of our older people
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The abuse of elderly people has become a serious problem in our society. But there are good examples of tackling poor treatment, neglect and abuse of dependent elderly and preventing similar abuse in the future.
In the wheelchair sits Kay, 79 years old. She suffers from multiple sclerosis.
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Because of the handicapped nature of her illness, Kay is provided with the services of a home help.
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The problem is that one of them used to steal money from her.
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A friend of Kay's has installed a surveillance camera to trap the thief.
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While Kay is in the bathroom, the thief takes one bag, and then a second.
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In total, 2,000 pounds sterling are going to disappear,
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and in doing so plunge Kay into a state of utter confusion and despair.
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When the money started disappearing, Kay was phoning me up at 9 o'clock in the evening,
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3 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning, totally hysterical, saying that she's going mad.
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Technically speaking, what happened to Kay is abuse. Her case is not an isolated one.
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It's a real problem in today's society.
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In 2006, King's College London carried out a survey.
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Some 2.6% of the people interviewed claimed to have personally experienced abuse.
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This corresponds to 277,000 people.
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Well, we defined elder abuse to include a number of things, such as financial abuse, psychological abuse,
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as well as physical and sexual forms of abuse.
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And you can also roll into that a neglect, which is also a form of mistreatment.
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Initiatives are taking off across Europe to prevent or curtail the number of cases of abuse.
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The Czech Republic, for example, set up SeniorLine more than 15 years ago.
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This telephone service not only directly addresses elderly people, but also those around them and care staff.
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This morning a woman is calling because her son is extorting money from her.
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We offer him a solution, and we try to make it work.
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Whether it's domestic violence, extortion, abuse or neglect,
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we try to offer it to our counsellors or to friends of the organisation who can work with this problem.
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Even if the number to call is a national one, the solutions to help people in distress are still usually at a local level.
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We're in the Netherlands. Miriam van Dongen travels from community to community to encourage them to set up information centres.
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What I do is that I go to the municipality and together with the people from the Advies en Steunpunt Huis voor het Geweld
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and the municipality, we inform them about elder abuse, so that it can be put on the agenda in the municipality.
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After a two-year effort, 94% of Dutch communities have set up help centres for the elderly.
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This is crucial because life expectancy is increasing all over Europe.
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People aged over 80 are going to be three or four times more numerous in 2050.
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European society is aging, there will always be more people in our society at a very high age,
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and it's clear that we have to address this situation by protecting human rights.
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The European Commission wants to build bridges between member states with the view to sharing knowledge,
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setting up training for medical teams, guaranteeing quality standards and initiating social dialogue,
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so as to improve the lot of care staff.
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The overall objective is to create the right conditions to better protect our elderly.
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- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
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- EducaMadrid
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- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
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- Fecha:
- 21 de agosto de 2008 - 11:31
- Visibilidad:
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- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 03′ 29″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.24:1
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- 425x344 píxeles
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- 8.15 MBytes
