means the refusal or failure to provide an elderly person with such life necessities as food, water, clothing, shelter, personal hygiene, medicine, comfort, personal safety, and other essentials included in an implied or agreed-upon responsibility to an elder.
Signs and symptoms of neglect include but are not limited to:
dehydration, malnutrition, untreated bed sores, and poor personal hygiene;
unattended or untreated health problems;
hazardous or unsafe living condition/arrangements (e.g., improper…
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