Try: In emotional or psychological senior abuse people speak to or treat elderly persons in ways that cause emotional pain or distress verbal forms of emotional elder abuse include intimidation through yelling or threats humiliation and ridicule habitual blaming or scapegoating nonverbal psychological elder abuse can be things like ignoring the elderly person isolating an elder from friends or activities terrorizing or menacing the elderly person signs of emotional abuse signs of emotional elder abuse include threatening belittling or controlling caregiver behavior that you witness behavior from the elder that mimics dementia such as rocking sucking or mumbling to oneself information references "elder abuse and neglect warning signs risk factors prevention and help" by laurence robinson tina de benedictis and jeanne segal 2011 available at

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Keywords: Elder abuse neglect injury threats intimidation intimidating criminal activity scared worried afraid

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