A nurse is providing home care for several elderly clients in the community. Which of the fol-lowing situations would most likely be indicative of elder abuse?
a. A daughter refuses to visit her mother due to work commitments.
b. A child runs around a grandparent's house breaking items.
c. A young man repeatedly steals money from his grandmother.
d. An older person demands that the family come for dinner.
ANS: C
Theft or mismanagement of money or resources is an element of abuse. Recognition of abuse in-cludes these other possibilities as well: willful infliction of physical pain or injury, inflection of debilitating mental anguish and fear, or unreasonable confinement or the depriving of services. The other examples do not describe these elements of abuse.
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