高齢者虐待の実態と法的対応の課題(シンポジウム2 「家族の変貌と暴力」)

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Previous investigation on older people abuse at home clarified some factors, which are related to abuse. 1 Personality of the person who does abuse 2 Disagreement (or some uncomfortable situation) between older people and careers 3 Personality of the older people who are cared 4 Too much family care work It is said that 85.9% of actual careers for older people are female. However, current investigation revealed that 32.1% of abusers are son of older people. Before establishing the law 'Inhibition of older people abuse', long term nursing home for older people was built by the law of social welfare for older people. According to national investigation in Japan, there were 97 cases that older people was transferred to long term nursing home for older people abuse in 273 totals. This number is one-third in total. In fact, 90% of people, who consider that abuse has been solved, answered that it is important to transfer older people to long term nursing home for older people or to hospital. As such, one of the most important solutions is separation from the person who does abuse. In addition, 'Inhibition of older people abuse' will be enforced from 1st April 2006. In particularly, it will be obligation to report abuse, when people find older people abuse or consider the possibility of abuse. Hence, legal response against older people abuse might be improved drastically. Nevertheless, there is still another problem in legal action against older people abuse, which is self-neglect. It means that older people who tend to reject any care service want to keep staying very bad condition, and also rejecting any services and careers. In order to solve this problem, it must be important to make older people to find that they are in bad condition and also make abuser to recognize abuser is doing abuse actually.