Neglect of oneself, especially one's physical well-being.
自我忽略；忽视自己
Example sentencesExamples
It also holds our darker emotional side such as depression, avoidance, self-neglect and regret.
One state may include self-neglect in their definition of elder abuse, while another does not.
Such a diagnosis carries with it a strong risk of death by suicide or self-neglect.
In the book, her self-neglect leading to pneumonia seems the sort of unconscious suicide that a lot of saints have committed.
In applying that approach, it must be borne in mind that the neglect or self-neglect need not be the sole or predominant cause of the death for it to be reflected in a verdict.
In such a case it may be factually accurate and helpfully descriptive to state that self-neglect aggravated, or preferably contributed to, the primary cause of death.
As in the case of self-neglect, neglect can rarely, if ever, be an appropriate verdict on its own.
When does the inertia of self-neglect shade into the dynamic of self-destruction?
The actual prevalence in Ireland of elder abuse (which excludes self-neglect and abuse by strangers) is not known, but it is thought likely to occur to the same extent as it does in other developed countries.
Most of the 71 subjects studied by Patronek met criteria for self-neglect.
Definition of self-neglect in US English:
self-neglect
nounˈˌself nəˈɡlekt
Neglect of oneself, especially one's physical well-being.
自我忽略；忽视自己
Example sentencesExamples
As in the case of self-neglect, neglect can rarely, if ever, be an appropriate verdict on its own.
The actual prevalence in Ireland of elder abuse (which excludes self-neglect and abuse by strangers) is not known, but it is thought likely to occur to the same extent as it does in other developed countries.
Such a diagnosis carries with it a strong risk of death by suicide or self-neglect.
Most of the 71 subjects studied by Patronek met criteria for self-neglect.
In the book, her self-neglect leading to pneumonia seems the sort of unconscious suicide that a lot of saints have committed.
One state may include self-neglect in their definition of elder abuse, while another does not.
In such a case it may be factually accurate and helpfully descriptive to state that self-neglect aggravated, or preferably contributed to, the primary cause of death.
It also holds our darker emotional side such as depression, avoidance, self-neglect and regret.
In applying that approach, it must be borne in mind that the neglect or self-neglect need not be the sole or predominant cause of the death for it to be reflected in a verdict.
When does the inertia of self-neglect shade into the dynamic of self-destruction?