Experienced caregivers will immediately recognize Gloria Davenport's descriptions
of the "toxic" personality: elders who persistently poison their own care environment
with noncompliant and psychologically abusive behavior. Toxic older adults are often
hazardous cases for gerontology professionals: they can destroy care relationships,
and even produce covictimization in their caregivers.

Davenport presents ways that care providers can prevent difficult elders from
manipulating the caregivers' energy and interfering with effective practice,
relationships, and healing.

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