Physical abuse includes assault, battery, assault with a deadly weapon, unreasonable physical constraint, prolonged or continual deprivation of food or water, sexual assault and rape.
Psychological/mental abuse includes fear, agitation, confusion, severe depression and other forms of serious emotional distress that are brought about by threats, harassment and intimidation.
Financial abuse can result from taking, secreting or appropriating money or property of an elder or dependent adult by a person who has the care or custody of, or who is in a position of trust to an elder or dependent adult.
Negligence occurs if a caregiver fails to assist the elder or dependent adult in personal hygiene; provide food, clothing or shelter; protect from health and safety hazards; or prevent malnutrition or dehydration.
Abduction means the removal from California and/or the restraint from returning to California of any elder or dependent adult who does not have the capacity to consent to the removal from or restraint from returning to California.
Abandonment means the desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone who has care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody.
Isolation means prevention from receiving phone calls or mail, false imprisonment or physical restraint from meeting with visitors.
Neglect means the negligent failure of any person, including the individual having the care or custody of an elder or a dependent adult, to exercise that degree of care that a reasonable person, in a like position, would exercise, to include failure to assist in personal hygiene or in the provision of food, clothing or shelter; or failure to provide medical care, to protect from health and safety hazards, prevent malnutrition or dehydration.