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Korean lawmaker champions elderly The Korea Herald, May 19, 2003 Korea - A reformist lawmaker yesterday submitted a proposal to the National Assembly aimed at preventing widespread abuses of elderly people's rights. Representative Kim Hong-shin of the opposition Grand National Party said he aims to increase the number of state-run nursing centers for senior citizens and encourage them to report any rights violations to law enforcement authorities. "I found that very few laws on domestic violence focus on the abuse of the elderly - most of them deal with assaults on women by their husbands," said Kim, a second-term lawmaker. According to official
documents, elderly abuse, which consists of physical abuse, psychological
abuse, financial exploitation or negligence, has a very remote chance of
being reported to authorities compared to other forms of domestic
violence. The documents also revealed that family members are
predominantly to blame for committing abuses. Copyright
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