Sharjah24: Sharjah Social Services Department (SSSD) has issued a guideline "Protecting the Elderly Vulnerable to Abuse", which is applied to all those caring for the elderly, individuals and institutions in the Emirate of Sharjah.
The guideline covers all forms of abuse that certain old people experience, determines who is responsible for protecting them, and informs everyone in society about their respective responsibilities.
Fatima Ismail, Director of Dar Al Aman, unveiled the reasons of publishing this guideline are to assist elderly and solve their problems, rehabilitee and empower them to engage in a variety of activities in the society.
Fatima Ismail pointed out that the problem is exacerbated by the failure to inform the elderly about the abuse they are exposed to by friends, family or nursing staff, or abuse and the lack of primary health care and social services.
The guideline ends with issuing significant recommendations, most notably stressing the need to criminalize abuse against the elderly, the importance of providing the elderly with the necessary behavioral skills to confront those who offend them, educating the elderly on the importance of cooperating with researchers wishing to study their problems, and spreading religious values that urge them to be treated with compassion, kindness and leniency, increasing oversight and follow-up in social care homes and health institutions in which the elderly reside for a long period of time to ensure that they are not subjected to abuse in these institutions, along with the intellectual, cultural and human development of the caregivers.
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