Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Adults

SAFEGUARDING

INTRODUCTION
In this present world, there are many issues and conflicts related to safeguarding and
protection of elderly people. This present report has been framed in the context of safe
guarding and protection of vulnerable adults. It is an important issue in the current living era.
In this report the factors which are responsible for abuse or harm to old age people are
discussed (EURATOM and Renha Jr, 2010. ). Moreover, it has been discussed that there are
currently many elder people living in the country who are victims of abuse from their
children. In addition to this, there are certain other risk factors which are responsible for
abuse and harm. Also, there are some other social and cultural factors which impact on abuse
to self and others. Also, some other legislations and policies which lays down the rules and
regulations relating to protection of others. Their strengths and weaknesses are also discussed
in this present report. In order to protect people from various abuse and harm, certain
safeguarding issues are also discussed in this assignment.
TASK 1A
1.1Reasons for vulnerability to abuse and/or harm
Abuse can be simply explained as exploitation of a physical and mental appearance of
a person and other skills and capabilities for satisfying the needs of other people and also a
situation of exposed into abuse describe the word vulnerable. There are certain factors which
can contribute for making them vulnerable that are as:
Physical and biological disabilities: It cause people to be vulnerable because by going
through the physical disabilities, people are unable to use their skills and abilities and also
they cannot make fast and quick reactions or responses in an abusive situation. It has also
been said that there are various factors which are influenced by these kind of disabilities
(Sørensen and Syljuåsen, 2012). This factor make people physically weak and also they
cannot take stand for themselves. Also it has been argued that they should be proper care
taken of them so as to make them strong and capable enough to fight in various abusive
situations. For an example, in this case, Mrs JK is an elderly woman which is facing multiple
disorder problems. Also, she is abused from her son, who ill-treated her for money. So, Mrs
JK was having physical disorder so she cannot resist his son beating and exploiting her.
Homeless and far away from family and friends: This is a factor which lead to abuse
and harm to self and others. It means that in case of home of old age people, they are
forced to be admitted in social care homes, where they can live and spend their life in
a better manner. But, due to this reason, they are forced to be the victim of sexual and
emotional abuse. Also, if they have n proper place to live they will be forced to live a
life which is of no use. They will not be having money and other basic things.so, if
they are not having their family and friends close to them, then they will become the
victim of abuse and harm.
Lack of knowledge and awareness: It is a factor which leads in the exploitation of others in
this world (Parton, 2011). It depicts that if an individual is not having proper knowledge and
awareness about his or her rights than it will lead to abuse and exploitation. It means that it
matters when vulnerability of adults and others, which need social care and other are
considered.it means that people who do not have proper knowledge and also the information
about the rules and regulations keep on going the abuses of such adults or elderly people.

Government should also try to achieve the minimisation of such misuse of old age people.
The people can get blamed and get rejected because they do not have proper home or place to
stay. The responsibility of various social care home is to provide shelter to those people who
are rejected from their home so that proper care should be taken of them. It can also be
evaluated that proper training sessions should be organized so that they can be given
knowledge about various rules and regulations (Yang and et. al., 2015). It can also be stated
that there are various rules and regulations prepared by the government of the country to
protect the abuse of adults. Adults have experienced more vulnerability instead of those who
have home to live.
Learn to abuse from others: In this point it has been demonstrated that many times
people learn to abuse other people from their friends and family. They have seen
many people by their parents and they also notice their parents abusing others.
Children get highly affected by this practice. So this practice should be reduced as it
highly results in exploitation of vulnerable adults or old age people. They should be
educated about behaving in amicable manner with others, so that people should not
look for social care home.
1.2Risk factors which may lead to incidence of abuse.
There are many factors which may lead to incidence of abuse. Risk in the health care
context is a very considerable manner. Risk is the unintended chance or possibility to get
unprotected into any kind of accidents along with hazards. Risks can be analysed in the
aspect of financial, social physical or psychological streams. Hazards is concept which
includes injuries which can be in the way of water, electricity or fire.
Psychological abuse: It is also termed as mental abuse and one of risk factor which
arises the risk of psychological instability and harming other people by their actions. This
type of situation or condition arises if any adults feel alone or he thinks that nobody is there
for taking care of him (Whitmee and et. al., 2015). It can also be analysed that this
circumstance can also be emerged if any child or adult realises that everyone rejects them.
Social risk is one of other type of risk. It is related with having bad company people
who have tendency of addiction along with aggression and negative conducts. It can also
be evaluated that there are many other factors which are related to society and other
aspects which force other people to harm others for their own purpose.
Physical risks are those factors which can be taken as revealing into threats and risks of
accidents. It can also be noted that most of physical risks happened due to lack of proper care
and concern by the family members. Also, there is a lack of attention on those adults and
children or old age people who requires care and concern or attention (Davies and Ward, 2011).
As, in the given example, it has been shows that Mrs JK was suffering from physical
disorders, so she need to be more properly treated and care should be provided.
TASK 1B
1.3The impact of social and cultural factors on different types of abuse.
In this present world, there is a great impact of many factors on the abuse or
exploitation of adults which are vulnerable in nature. These can be broadly categorised into
social and cultural factors.