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* Being penalized (pecuniary or otherwise) | * Being penalized (pecuniary or otherwise) | ||
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===Are these protections limited to abuse reports?=== | |||
On its face, these protections appear to only cover “abuse” reports. However, the definitions for abuse and neglect, especially the definition of “neglect” in Schedule D of the Residential Care Regulations, are fairly broad to reasonably include reports being made about many quality of care matters affecting residents. | |||
===Figure 2=== | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Types of Harm''' | |||
| width="40%" | '''Residential Care (Definition used for “Reportable incidents”)''' | |||
| width="40%" | '''Adult Guardianship''' | |||
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| width="20%" |'''Abuse''' | |||
| width="40%" | Abuse is not specifically defined, see details for the various types | |||
| width="40%" | General defn: "abuse" means the deliberate mistreatment of an adult that causes the adult | |||
*(a) physical, mental or emotional harm, or | |||
*(b) damage or loss in respect of the adult's financial affairs,<br/> | |||
and includes intimidation, humiliation, physical assault, sexual assault, overmedication, withholding needed medication,<br/> censoring mail, invasion or denial of privacy or denial of access to visitors | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Neglect''' | |||
| width="40%" | "neglect" means the failure of a care provider to meet the needs of a person in care, including food, shelter, care or supervision | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Physical Abuse''' | |||
| width="40%" | "physical abuse" means any physical force that is excessive for, or is inappropriate to, a situation involving<br/> a person in care and perpetrated by a person not in care | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Sexual abuse''' | |||
| width="40%" | "sexual abuse" means any sexual behaviour directed towards a person in care and includes | |||
any sexual exploitation, whether consensual or not, by an employee of the licensee, or any other person in a position of trust,<br/> power or authority, … but does not include consenting sexual behaviour between adult persons in care | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Emotional abuse''' | |||
| width="40%" | “emotional abuse" means any act, or lack of action, which may diminish the sense of dignity of a person in care,<br/> perpetrated by a person not in care, such as verbal harassment, yelling or confinement | |||
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| width="20%" | '''Financial abuse''' | |||
| width="40%" | "financial abuse" means | |||
*(a) the misuse of the funds and assets of a person in care by a person not in care, or | |||
*(b) the obtaining of the property and funds of a person in care by a person not in care without the knowledge and full consent of<br/> the person in care or his or her parent or representative. | |||
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