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Adult safeguarding: practical response ⚠️ 🩺
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Safeguarding concerns can arise from physical, psychological, sexual or financial abuse, neglect, coercive control or exploitation, including in patients who have capacity.
Recognise
- Look for injury inconsistent with history, repeated admissions, fear of carers, poor nutrition, pressure damage, missing medicines or financial exploitation.
- Speak to the person privately where safe; use an interpreter when needed and seek wishes and consent where possible.
Act
- Address immediate danger (999/police or emergency treatment as appropriate); document findings factually and preserve evidence.
- Contact the trust safeguarding lead and local authority adult safeguarding service using local policy; share information proportionately where necessary to protect people at risk.
- Capacity is decision- and time-specific under the Mental Capacity Act; a capacitous person's refusal does not necessarily remove obligations to consider risk to others.
Clinical reasoning: Avoid assuming that a frail older person lacks capacity or that safeguarding applies only to older adults.
Related Makindo topics
UK sources / further reading: NHS England safeguarding framework
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