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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

92% of elderly suffer in silence :Study Claims Senior Citizens In Capital Face Physical Abuse
New Delhi: Abuse of the elderly is a relatively new problem.With increasing life-expectancy,there are more elderly people around.A recent study by HelpAge India,Elder Abuse and Crime in India,claims all senior citizens they spoke to in the Capital said they had been verbally abused,while 33% confided they had been physically abused -- often beaten and tied to chairs.The ill-treatment of the elderly has become a serious enough problem to now warrant a World Elder Abuse Awareness Day,observed across the globe on June 15.
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 6:58 AM

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