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-Elder abuse can also include emotional or psychological
abuse.
This occurs when people talk to or treat the senior
in a way that causes mental suffering.
This suffering can be either through
verbal or nonverbal actions.
Verbal forms of emotional elder abuse
include intimidation through yelling or threats, humiliation
or ridicule, or habitual blaming or scapegoating.
Nonverbal psychological elder abuse
can take the form of ignoring the elderly person, isolation
of the elder from friends or activities,
or terrorizing or menacing the elderly person.