Introduction
In many countries, elders face different forms of abuse without help due to the limited systems concerned with their health safety. These mistreatments get globally recognized as a disaster that is growing at an extensive rate (Pillemer et al., 2016). Elders abuse research findings ought to call for attention to the social health agencies, policy framers, and governmental system who should take the initiative and culminate the condition. This section aims to discuss various limitations, use, and application and the recommendations of the research findings.
Use and Applications of the Findings
The use and the application of these findings may lead to the curbing of elder's both physical and psychological abuse. The study shows psychological mistreatments as the highest percentage raged at 34.4% (Yon, Ramiro-Gonzalez, Mikton, et al., 2019). Physical abuse has followed with 14.1%. With the help of policymakers, this finding shall play a significant role in the reduction of such mistreatments to a lower level. The results help in improving psychological wellness in various ways. For example, when there is an inclusion of elder's safety in the policy, they get involved in the health care system, thus protected and empowered to gain self-concept. Through self-awareness, they efficiently deal with stress management both at home and in working places.
Similarly, the healing of elders' physical abuse is vital for coping with their daily activities. Most of the elders get mistreated due to the limited concerns over their shortcomings. They face different health challenges related to their sight, hearing, taste, walking, among others. These challenges require special care for health to ease the condition for them to cope with their day to day activities. For example, if an older person faces physical violence, the policy should help to define how he or she is protected. This definition shall not only help in curbing the physical mistreatments but also psychological exploitations.
These findings work as an eye-opener to both individuals and the government system in understanding the gap left implicating challenges to the elders. The health care system has abandoned adult abuse diverting the energy in protecting children's sexual harassment. Payne argues that the assumption of the elder sexual mistreatment gets inconsistent, making the problem, not of great concern, and more complicated for the research (Payne, 2010). Lack of interest contributes to most of the elders facing sexual exploitation that would lead to psychological impairment, such as depression and anxiety.
These findings may play a significant role in ensuring that elders benefit from reasonable payments, thus protecting them from the low fee. Pillemer claims that low income insinuates elder abuse, for it is never enough to cater to their bills (Pillemer 2016). By pronouncing discordant between the income and their needs, the policymakers can intervene and brings the remedy for their support. Also, the social care system may help to ensure that older people get enough capital to buy the necessary equipment to help them solve their health conditions. For instance, physically challenged older people should have enough money to purchase wheelchairs for comfort purposes in their movement.
Recommendations
Firstly, it is significant for the government to come up with different social media programs that would inform the society about various effects of gender-based violence. These programs would work as an eye-opener to allow the nation to see the right side of equality involvement. In most cases, "gender-based violence" is used as "women violence" interchangeably (MANICKAVASAGAM, 2019). He argues that most of the women who face violence abuse may not quickly get out of it due to fear. Also, they feel that they cause mistreatments after provoking their abusers. However, these programs may play a vital role in allowing people to understand the cause of fear and its consequences to the abused adults.
Also, the programs would play a crucial role in educating couples on various ways of handling disagreements other than just battling. Suggestions aired by multiple applications such as holding free communication when addressing a specific topic would help to curb misunderstanding that may cause couples' violence. Various programs may help to introduce multiple cases of violence, informing the society about different ways of handling the disagreements. This health approach helps the abused individuals to avoid stigma due to the introduced multiple-purpose programs which empower them (Weine, Eisenman, Kinsler, et al., 2017). For example, when an adult gets violently harassed, he or she can air the concern to the helping team through these programs hence reducing the abusive situation.
Secondly, it is significant for the government to introduce an appropriate intervention that supports addressing severe mental health conditions. There is an urgent need for mental health specialists (Ottisova, Hemmings, Howard, 2016). Most of the old individuals face different mental challenges, which calls for specialist attention. For example, in the year 2016, the study shows that 700,000 American people aged 65years and above being involved with the loss of memory, causing them to forget easily or die (Alzheimer's Association, 2016). Besides their ages, an etiology of a short-term remembrance ability may have associated with various lifestyle challenges, such as losing their loved ones. Therefore, this grieving may work as abuse to these people since it alters their peace, causing psychological instability. As such, mental health specialists may help to improve elders' mental conditions, enhancing their day to day life activities.
This recommendation would help the government partner with various psychological agencies that help improve elder's self-awareness. Such agencies, like counseling centers, play a significant role in enhancing an individual's mental stability. However, most of these centers' services get highly charged for most of the elders to afford. Therefore, Government-agencies would play a significant role in ensuring that the challenged alders can access the services at a reasonable charge. These services would also help in mental reconstruction on how they view their world. For instance, most older adults may feel less advantaged due to their inability to work as younger people may work. It is in this miserable condition that most of them urgently call for health care service providers to stabilize how they view their world.
Thirdly, there should be some training programs that would inform older adults on the issues that would erupt at their later ages. This information would alert them and notify them of unexpected changes in their near future. For the efficient delivery of such information, the elder's service providers must be knowledgeable about the human developmental stages. This information helps elders to gain self-awareness, thus reduction of anxiety caused by sudden occurrences of problems. The training programs can get introduced either at home or even in the working places. At home, there should be a health specialist partnering with the care providers training elders at home on how to cope with neglect as a form of abuse (Baker, Francis, Hairi, et al., 2016).
On the other hand, an employer should ensure that they introduce a program that trains adults to prepare for the near future when they fail to report at the job. For example, they should acquire knowledge on how to save money for their old ages adequately. Besides money-saving discipline, these training programs would help them on how to cope up with stress management. Also, they help to reduce lifestyle diseases since they create awareness on how to overcome such disorders. For example, being aware of cardiovascular diseases, elders shall be cautious in adhering to what manages their health condition. As such, the program helps reduce the state and strengthen their ability to cope with an emerging issue.
Also, family members should enhance protective measures of their elders. For example, they may come up with a policy that suggests one of the members keep their elders secure at home. Giving comfort to the elders may help in improving their health condition. It is crucial in the reduction of stress, thus avoiding depression. As such, elders' emotions get prevented from negative alterations since they do not face neglect mistreatments. The study shows that Loneliness may be a distress detector causing depression and forming suicidal ideas (Beutel, Klein, Brähler, et al., 2017). Therefore, it is significant to come up with various ways of enhancing social wellbeing.
Conclusion
Elders' abuse may get experienced in various ways. For example, most of them get laid on physical, psychological, sexual, and financial backgrounds. Despite various elders' forms of neglect, this research has cultivated in coming up with different findings that call for the attention of multiple agencies to enhance the curbing of adult mistreatments. Such recommendations, like the introduction of various social media programs, help to spread the information associated with adult violence, thus making people come up with multiple ways of reducing the situation. Similarly, training programs create awareness for the elders, thus enabling them to understand an age transition. Also, the partnership between the government and the health agencies reduces charges for mental health services. It helps most of the vulnerable adults to access the facilities, thus reduction of elder abuse.
