The right to protection from Exploitation

Meaning of the right of aged persons to be protected against exploitation.

A person is deemed to exploit another person whenever that person takes advantage of the other person's vulnerability, because of her age, in order to satisfy his own needs, thus inflicting a prejudice to the other person.

The exploitation may be:

• Of a financial or material nature: when the victim provides money or goods to the abuser;

• Of a physical nature: whenever the victim is beaten, neglected, etc. by the abuser;

• Psychologically: the victim is threatened or attacked verbally; the victim is threatened by his abuser concerning his own security, his living environment, or other questions that provoke the victim's anxiety;

• Emotionally: the abuser threatens to abandon the victim, to prevent him from seeing other loved ones, to take him away from his living environment, etc.
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