Elder abuse. Touching my emotions.

While I like to think that I have all my emotions under control I know that I am very wrong!
It's not that I don't want to show my emotions, I really do but I am also a half closed book. You won't often see me cry unless you are there at the right moment. I like to cry alone, hide my tears and face. Showing emotions is a big trigger for me because when I open up I am like a waterfall and there is no end in sight! So, most of the time I hide my emotions but there are these rare moments in life where you no longer have control.

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There is the commercial showing here in Holland and every time I see it, I have to walk away or I will try not to see it. I have no idea why this commercial strikes me so hard but it does. I can watch the most bloody horror movies and still eat my dinner but watching this breaks my heart!

Here is the commercial.

It is the old man who really touches my heart. The look on his face, his eyes and the way he moves. This is the commercial that brings tears to my own eyes no matter how many times I watch it.

I am against all abuse, human and or animal!
It saddens me that this world is turning in a pit of hell under our own hands. I have a huge amount o respect for the elderly probably because of the way my parents brought me up. The elderly have build the world we now live in and most of them have been through hell and back with wars and so many other things. It breaks my heart when I read the stories in the news about a old woman being raped and robbed in her own house. Or when someone who cares for them ( A nurse, house keeper) steals from them.

I know that I am only one voice and I am not able to change the way things are but I will use the strength of my voice to get this out in the world.

Elder abuse

Elder abuse is any action or inaction of those who are in a recurring personal or professional relationship with the elder (anyone 65 years or older), making the older person's physical and / or psychological and / or material damages suffered or probably will suffer, and in which from the side of the elderly there is a form of partial or complete dependence.

We distinguish five forms that occur often in combination: physical abuse, psychological abuse (including violation of right to privacy), neglect, financial abuse and sexual abuse.

Sometimes violation of rights as a separate form shall be appointed, but all forms of elder abuse are essentially violation of rights of the elderly.