Institutional abuse of an older adult typically occurs at the workplace.

a. True

b. False

The answer is true.

The maltreatment of a person (often children or older adults) from a system of power is called institutional abuse. This ranges from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and hunger, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behaviour. It often occurs within emergency care facilities. Such as foster homes, group homes, kinship care homes, and pre-adoptive homes. The employee usually causes the maltreatment.