The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth has Manuela Schwesig as its current minister since 1982.
 This transformations aimed to consolidate the policy-fields of economics and labour market, on which the second term of chancellor Gerhard Schrder wanted to focus, into one hand
Elder abuse is, according to the WHO: "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"

