Try: Physical elder abuse is non-accidental use of force against an elderly person that results in physical pain injury or impairment such abuse includes not only physical assaults such as hitting or shoving but the inappropriate use of drugs restraints or confinement signs of physical abuse unexplained signs of injury such as bruises welts or scars especially if they appear symmetrically on two side of the body broken bones sprains or dislocations report of drug overdose or apparent failure to take medication regularly a prescription has more remaining than it should broken eyeglasses or frames signs of being restrained such as rope marks on wrists caregiver’s refusal to allow you to see the elder alone 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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