At the place where I work, a 5 resident adult family home, there is one resident who is on a level of aspirin daily that causes her to bruise very easily. She came back from a trip to the hospital with her arms black and blue from the IVs and when she bumps elbow/arm against the wall at night while in bed it turns her whole upper arm purple! Well, anyway, her family members are always joking around saying stuff like; "Looks like A and T are beating up on you again. Ha ha!" And it's just so inappropriate and I don't think it's funny one bit. I treat all those in my care as if they were my own family and with a thought as to how I'd want to be treated,(and if I suspected the provider of the afh (the only other caregiver on staff), or another resident or family member of abuse of course I would call and report it), but, to make light of something as serious as elder abuse, especially when it could be heard out of context and result in someone getting falsely reported and the fact that people actually are abused and I don't think they think it's something to laugh about. Have any of you been in that situation like I mentioned above or similar? How did you handle it?
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That's hilarious! I love elder abuse jokes, they're so funny