Importance of caregiver-elder relationship: Pay attention to the signs (elder abuse)
Retirement can pose serious challenges to elderly lives. More often than not, it causes loneliness in seniors after their busy career span and fulfilment of personal responsibilities. This could lead to serious consequences like elder abuse and social isolation making life tormenting. Let us explore how a proper caregiving relationship can overcome this dangerous hurdle and enable seamless aging. Aging poses multiple challenges to the older generation making the transition to retired life cumbersome. Loneliness in elders is a common concern because making new friends can be difficult as the opportunities to meet and connect with people dwindle as one gets older. This issue further assumes paramount challenges in crisis times as the coronavirus epidemic. Such isolation has a profound impact on their health particularly their mental well-being and also makes them easy prey for elder abuse. Though abuse of older women was more predominant earlier, we are seeing a rising number of cases f