The Illinois Elder Abuse and Neglect Program further defines abuse and neglect as follows:
•Physical abuse means inflicting physical pain or injury upon an older adult.
•Sexual abuse means touching, fondling, intercourse, or any other sexual activity with an older adult, when the older person is unable to understand, unwilling to consent, threatened or physically forced.
•Emotional abuse means verbal assaults, threats of abuse, harassment or intimidation.
•Confinement means restraining or isolating an older person, other than for medical reasons.
•Passive neglect means the caregiver’s failure to provide an older person with life’s necessities, including, but not limited to, food, clothing, shelter or medical care.
Willful deprivation means willfully denying an older person medication, medical care, shelter, food, a therapeutic device or other physical assistance, and thereby exposing that person to the risk of physical, mental or emotional harm—except when the older person has expressed an intent to forego such care.
Financial exploitation means the misuse or withholding of an older person’s resources by another to the disadvantage of the elderly person and/or the profit or advantage of someone else.
