That is exactly how we think about elder abuse. Animal abuse, child abuse, and elder abuse, are three concepts that boggle my mind. We live in the most technologically advanced society in human history. We can travel to any part of the world. We have mapped every square inch of the Mother Earth. We are sending unmanned space vehicles to explore planets in our solar system and beyond. Through genetic engineering we can identify root sources of disabilities, i.e., diabetes, hearing loss, and so on. We can build machines so small that they can only be seen with sophisticated microscopes. We boast of our advances in any number of educational and scientific areas. But when it comes to commenting on an elder being force fed, who then dies as a result, someone thoughtfully replied, "Well she was going to die anyway."
My comment: In some areas we truly have made great advances, in other areas, well... we have a very long way to go.
