Well their is hope, if you are over 60 then you can call protective services for the elderly. The silent treatment is emotional abuse and your kids can be held accountable for their actions. Verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse is way under reported and the elder people need to know they can report this abuse and get help with their family issue. Elder abuse is against the law in almost every State in the US.I am dealing with an elderly abuse issue myself right now, and I spoke to protective services and described my situation and they agreed that I was being abused. Any one can read up on elderly abuse on the internet and see that more people need to bring up emotional and verbal abuse. The silent treatment is emotional abuse and is against the law. Verbal abuse is a crime, as well. name calling, belittling, demeaning, Yelling and screaming, insults, withholding love and affection as a means of punishment, Using threats to intimidate,Neglect is when a caregiver does not provide for an elder's safety, or for his or her physical and/or psychological needs. Physical neglect can mean failing to provide an elder with adequate and necessary medication or physical therapy, not taking care of an elder's personal hygiene needs, or forcing an elder to live in unsanitary or potentially harmful conditions. Psychological neglect can mean leaving an older person alone for long periods of time or failing to provide social contact, activities, or information.
all these are forms of abuse punishable by fines and jail time. So if you are being neglected or emotional abuse make that call you shouldn't have to accept less then favorable treatment form any family member.