Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
The problem, often seen after a stroke, of ignoring the paralyzed side. Visual neglect involves not attending to a particular field of vision.
The failure to provide an animal with the most basic of requirements of food, water, shelter and veterinary care. Neglect is often the result of simple ignorance on the animal owner's part and is usually handled by requiring the owner to correct the situation.
to fail to take care of someone or something
The failure of the person responsible for the care of a child to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical care or supervision necessary for the child's health and welfare. See also Abuse, above for further legal definitions of both child abuse and neglect.
Omission or failure to do an act or perform a duty due to want of due care or attention.
Neglect means the failure to provide the services necessary to maintain a resident's physical or mental health.
Disregard, or ignore what should or needs to be done.(children, not, aware of their needs) (children, not, cared for)
People with neglect ignore the side of their body which has been affected by the stroke and may even deny owning an affected arm or leg.They may also ignore people approaching them from that side and may not respond to people on that side.
A common consequence of damage to the right cerebral hemisphere in which the patient ignores (neglects) the right side of space and often the right side of the body (failing to wash or shave or dress the right half of the body). It is not common after head injury except in the very acute early stages.
Failure to provide a child with food, clothing, medical attention, or supervision
In the nursing home context, when a care taker fails to give a person the care, services or goods necessary to avoid harm or illness.
A term which describes a child whose parents neglect or refuse to provide the needed care and supervision for their child.
When care takers do not give a person they care for the goods or services needed to avoid harm or illness.
lack of attention and due care
willful lack of care and attention
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"
fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"
give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
People who are chronically unable to care for themselves (whether as children or because of disease or old age) often must depend for basic needs on others who are not health care professionals. The failure to provide such care is sometimes criminal and in many cases harmful to the patient. Health care workers sometimes have to be on the lookout for such cases, as it may be their ethical or even legal duty to intervene. See also: abuse, family autonomy [See Case Studies related to Neglect
Failure to provide life-sustaining care including food, liquid and treatment of wounds.
"Failing to provide for, or to secure for a child the basic needs of food, warmth, clothing, emotional security, physical safety and well-being".
Failure to meet one's legal or moral obligations or duties, especially to dependent family members. When such conduct results in harm or potential arm to others, legal proceedings may be taken to compel the person to meet the relevant obligations or face punishment.
Parental failure to provide a child with basic necessities when able to do so. Encompasses a variety of forms of abuse that do not require the element of intent.
Depriving a pet (or pets) of the most basic necessities of food, water, shelter and veterinary care.
The failure or omission on the part of a caregiver of a disabled adult or elderly person to provide the care, supervision, and services necessary to maintain the physical and mental health of the disabled adult or elderly person, including, but not limited to food, clothing, medicine, shelter, supervision and medical services that a prudent person would consider essential for the well-being of a disabled adult or elderly person.
Paying little or no attention to a part of the body.
The failure to use all reasonable means to save and preserve property before, during and after a loss or whenever property is threatened.
to give little or no attention, care
Child neglect involves the failure to provide needed, age-appropriate care although financially able to do so, or offered financial or other means to do so. This includes physical neglect (e.g. deprivation of food, clothing, shelter), medical neglect (e.g. failure to provide child with access to needed medical or mental health treatments or to consistently administer prescribed medications), and educational neglect (e.g. withholding child from school, failure to attend to special education needs).
When one half of the body and the objects on that side of the body are ignored.
Failure to provide support, medical care, education, moral example, discipline and other necessaries.
A failure to act resulting in imminent risk of serious harm, death, physical or emotional harm, or exploitation of a child
Neglect is defined as a failure to care for. As a point of differentiation from the wider definition of abuse, neglect can be viewed as an act of omission, rather than of commission. As an NZFVC Topic Area, Neglect is treated as a qualifying sub-category in cases where specifically neglect rather than abuse is being studied, and is only applicable to items which are additionally assigned under either Child abuse and neglect or Elder abuse and neglect.
Includes not only poor physical care and inattention to the child's basic needs, but also a failure to provide the necessary stimulation to sustain behavioural and emotional development.
the failure to provide for the child's basic needs. Neglect can be physical, educational, or emotional. Physical neglect can include not providing adequate food or clothing, appropriate medical care, supervision, or proper weather protection (heat or coats). Educational neglect includes failure to provide appropriate schooling, special educational needs, or allowing excessive truancies. Psychological neglect includes the lack of any emotional support and love, chronic inattention to the child, exposure to spouse abuse, or drug and alcohol abuse.
A legal term defined in ORC Section 2151.03 which refers to a child who is abandoned; or who lacks proper parental care and support because of parental faults or habits; or whose parents neglect or refuse to provide him/ her with proper education, or medical care; or, whose parents neglect or refuse to provide the child with the special care required because of a psychological condition.
Passive indifference to a child's well-being or habitual failure by a parent or caretaker or other responsible for the care and safety of a child to provide and maintain adequate food, clothing, medical care, supervision, and/or education. [ more
Failure by a parent to provide a minor child with basic life necessities. The adult does not have to have intent to abuse or neglect for the neglect to be proven.
"The failure to provide for one's self the goods or services which are necessary to avoid physical harm, mental anguish, or illness; or the failure of a caregiver to provide such goods or services." Chapter 48, Human Resources Code