New Delhi: During the lockdown imposed amid the second wave of Covid-19, about 73 percent of elderly people faced abuse. This has been said in a new report. The Edgewell Foundation has prepared a report based on the feedback of 5000 elders, which has been released ahead of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It said that 82 percent of the respondents claimed that their lives have been affected due to the current COVID-19 situation.
The report found that 73 percent of elders reportedly said that the cases of abuse against them increased during and after the lockdown and 61 percent of them claimed that mutuality was responsible for the rapidly increasing incidents of abuse of elders in families. Relationships were the main factor.
During the survey, it was found that 65 percent of the respondents are facing neglect in their life while about 58 percent said that they are facing abuse in their families and society. The report also found that nearly every third of the elderly (35.1 percent) claimed that people faced domestic violence (physical or verbal) in old age.
The foundation’s president Himanshu Rath said that while COVID-19 and related lockdowns and restrictions have affected almost everyone, the elderly have been the most affected so far.
