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- Sexual abuse
10,000 Americans Will Turn 65 Every Day for the Next 20 Years - 10 Percent of Them Will Be Abused
If you knew that 1,000 people would start to suffer at the hands of abusers
every single day in the United States, you would likely be motivated to
do something about it. That number seems so large that it's completely
illogical, but that's exactly what experts are predicting is going
to happen over the course of the next 20 years. These predictions are
based on statistics, and some feel that these statistics are actually
quite conservative in nature based on the fact that many older people
simply never report instances of abuse or even ongoing situations of abuse.
Recently, the Imperial Valley News in California published an article
that was nothing short of stunning in terms of the numbers it provided.
The full text of that article can be found
here. The article laid out the aging trend in the United States based on the
fact that the Baby Boomers, which represent a large percentage of our
population, are beginning to reach the age when many people consider retirement
and enter into what are known as their Golden Years. Sadly, it doesn't
appear that these years will be anything resembling the pleasure of gold
for far too many of them. According to the article, approximately 10,000
people are set to turn 65 years old every single day for the next 20 years.
That statistic comes from the Pew Research Center. That equates to 3.65
million people in the United States every year. According to an estimate
provided by Bureau of Justice Statistics, at least 10 percent of those
3.65 million people per year will endure some form of abuse. That leads
to the conclusion that 365,000 people will be abused every year, and over
the course of the next 20 years that means that 7.3 million people will
suffer through this treatment. Simply put, these are shocking statistics,
and this is a forthcoming problem that needs to garner attention so that
something can be done. People of advanced age can suffer abuse while living
in an assisted living facility or while living at home. Elderly people
can and often are abused by family members who take advantage of them
in one way or another. There are several different forms of elder abuse,
including: