CEOMA reminds the institutions the need to fight against the mistreatment of the elderly.

in the world day for abuse awareness taking and mistreatment in old age.

– program untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ”, CEOMA fights for the rights of the elderly

Madrid, 2011-June last Wednesday, takes abuse awareness day and the abuse in old age, the National Confederation of organizations of older (CEOMA) reminded institutions the need to combat the abuse and mistreatment suffered by many elderly.

Within the larger population there are especially vulnerable to abuse, as they are more elderly people, those who have limited mobility or highly dependent, those with dementia, women and older persons with less income. There are many forms of abuse in the elderly: physical neglect, psychological, physical, economic and sexual abuse.

To combat a form of possible abuse, CEOMA has launched the program untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” which aims to establish a new pattern of care to ensure free of physical and chemical fastening attention. The pylons that are used by third party convenience or discipline are clear forms of abuse.

Currently in Spain, 80. 000 and 100,000 older can be subjected to physical or chemical pylons. The index of our country is the highest of the Nations of our environment.

In this context, CEOMA urges the authorities to that it commit themselves firmly in the fight against the abuse suffered by the elderly and reminded the media play an essential role to raise awareness in society of this scourge since that information is essential for its eradication.

Trigger to the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient

The program untie the elderly and Alzheimer’s patient ” was awarded the International Prize Prince of Viana customer unit ” 2010, and its purpose is to support all schools who request and who want to work to rationalize the use of pylons or achieve accredited as centre free of PYLONS ”.

CEOMA

The Spanish Confederation of older organizations (CEOMA) is an organization created non-profit for the defence of the rights of older persons. It represents more than one million members in Base and almost 1,500 associations and comprises 40 organizations of elders of the various autonomous communities.