Maria works as a certified nursing assistant at a local Nursing Home. She genuinely cares about the elders in the home. Maria asks new elders how they would like to be addressed. What is Maria avoiding?

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Answer is ELDER ABUSE.

Explanation:

Elder abuse is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person. This type of violence constitutes a violation of human rights and includes physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuse; financial and material abuse; abandonment; neglect; and serious loss of dignity and respect.

Emotional/psychological abuse: infliction of mental pain, distress or anguish through verbal or non-verbal acts. It may take verbal forms such as yelling, name-calling, ridiculing, constantly criticizing, accusations, blaming, or nonverbal forms such as ignoring, silence, shunning or withdrawing affection.

Therefore, by asking the new elders how they would like to be addressed, Maria is trying to avoid ELDER ABUSE.

Maria was avoiding of being embarrassed.

Explanation:

Maria asked the new elders this question under her care how they would like to be addressed so that she would not be embarrassed. On the other hand the new elders would not be embarrassed too so that the aims and objectives could be achieved by both parties at the end. she asked the question to have a cordial relationship with them.