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Deborah Margaret Shields

Social Worker

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40 years Experience
Deborah Margaret Shields
  • GOSHEN, NY
  • Columbia University
  • Accepting new patients

My friend doesn't take care of her mother. Is this elder abuse?

When you say “her daughter is doing most of the caretaking,” it implies that Someone is caring for your friend’s mother. That suggests that the mother’s granddaughter is caring READ MORE
When you say “her daughter is doing most of the caretaking,” it implies that Someone is caring for your friend’s mother. That suggests that the mother’s granddaughter is caring for your friend’s mother. As long as someone Is PROPERLY caring for the elderly woman, I’m not seeing elder abuse. If your friend was living with her mother, and had assumed responsibility as her primary caretaker - and she was not properly caring for her mother, that could be a neglect issue (if no one else was caring for the mother).