They often came home greeted not with gratitude or support, but with condemnation and neglect.
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The idea is to put abuse and neglect of older persons in a global spotlight.
As a public health nurse, I have witnessed elder abuse and neglect firsthand.
It follows concern that serious case reviews into child abuse and neglect were taking too long.
So the end result is that they spend a lot on their wants and neglect their needs.
Southern Cross, which operated Orchid View, closed the home last year following allegations of ill-treatment and neglect.
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Companies tend to focus on the things that can drop on your foot and neglect lucrative revenues from services.
His own life was a different American story, of addiction, waste and neglect.
Many of those who survive face discrimination, prejudice, violence and neglect all their lives, as single or married women.
Eleven care workers are to be sentenced later for the maltreatment and neglect of five patients at Winterbourne View.
Eleven people have admitted charges of ill-treatment and neglect related to the abuse.
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Even having state crime lab results double checked by an independent service could prevent all sorts of abuse and neglect.
Too many investors seek comfort first and neglect the fact that they need to earn a return on their investments.
He said tackling absentee crofters and neglect of crofting townships would also lead to homes becoming available to new inhabitants.
The study was published in the journal of Child Abuse and Neglect.
The Francis Report found abuse and neglect led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at the hospital between 2005 and 2008.
The Los Angeles River, however, has a history of ridicule and neglect: A state legislator in the 1980s wanted to build a highway on it.
Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow has argued for new laws to ensure care providers are held criminally accountable for abuse and neglect on their premises.
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Castlebeck, the company at the centre of a BBC-exposed scandal into physical abuse and neglect at one of its care homes, has gone into administration.
Local authorities and safeguarding boards have responsibility to protect vulnerable adults from abuse and neglect and the CQC helps by passing on any relevant concerns it finds.
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Texas Child Protection Services confirmed it had received allegations of physical abuse and neglect and was investigating, but had not yet determined whether the allegations were true.
Eleven people were charged in connection with ill treatment and neglect of patients following secret filming by the Panorama team at Winterbourne View, which is now closed.
"When things go wrong, when terrible abuse and neglect takes place, the public expect those who take the fee to be held to account, " he told MPs.
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He said Anglesey councillors had 'betrayed those who elected them' in Wales and said that shifting loyalties, continued infighting and neglect of public duty could simply not continue.
She's known abuse and neglect, she's known homelessness and filth.
Many family members misunderstand this and neglect to pay it.
He says that a culture of openness and transparency is essential to avoid repeating the mistakes at Stafford Hospital - where abuse and neglect led to hundreds of deaths.
Women also have a higher overall mortality rate than men, partly because of bias and neglect over a lifetime, according to recent research, as well as mortality during childbirth.
Welsh government officials say the changes will help authorities learn lessons from abuse and neglect cases, but it is hoped one of the consequences will be a quicker system.
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