What is Abuse?

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What is abuse?

Abuse and neglect can happen anywhere including at home, in care homes or in day care centres or hospitals. It may be a single act or take place over a longer period of time. Abuse can take different forms.

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A front-room filled with rubbish, bags and boxes. These are piled up everywhere.

Self Neglect

A series of hands clinging onto a chain-link fence.

Modern slavery

A gloved hand reaches out of a laptop screen and steals a wallet from the back pocket of a man's trousers.

Financial abuse

A man is behind a window crying whilst his wife is outside holding a sign saying 'Miss you'.

Neglect or
act of omission

An woman shields herself whilst a man grabs her by the wrist.

Physical abuse

A woman with her hand in a fist is striking a man who looks in pain.

Domestic abuse

A woman is pinned to a bed by a man. We can see him grabbing her by the wrist.

Sexual abuse

A young woman sits distressed whilst her husband shouts at her in the background.

Psychological abuse

Faces of four woman from different ethnic backgrounds shown in a profile view.

Discriminatory abuse

A male nurse sits in a chair using his mobile phone whilst an elderly patient calls out for help.

Organisational abuse

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