De la esclavitud a la desvinculación forzosa, dos formas de maltrato a personas mayoresun reto para los servicios sociales sanitarios

Resumen

Abuse the elderly has many edges and is complex not only their detection and quantification, the incidence and prevalence of the miso, but also the conceptualization. The language sometimes conceals the reality: abuse, misconduct, abuse, violence, etc., are euphemisms that are used for their study. They are often used as synonyms, but sometimes of the impression that they are ways to hide the reality. This article addresses two types of abuse, closer to the psychological abuse, which are characterized by two ends of a same behavior: abuse resulting from overload of care for the elderly (grandparents), diagnosed as "the slave grandmother syndrome" and the abuse suffered by some grandparents raising grandchildren exclusion by decision of the parents, which here we call "the excluded grandfather syndrome". Psychosomatic consequences of both these situations are frequently known by the medical staff, but tend not to arise to professionals of health social services so that they intervene in the situation as a problem of abuse. That is why here questions arise about the need that both situations could be included in the sphere of the competence of health social workers.