Before supporting any domestic abuse organisation, ask who they think is vulnerable. You will be astonished.
It is any woman, however self sufficient and capable of leaving, provided the offender, resident or not, has currently or at any previous time had an 'intimate personal relationship' (presumably including a one night stand), or if he conforms to a limited list of permitted family members .
It is not an old or disabled or housesharing woman however extreme the abuse carried out by carers or by fellow residents or landlords or sublandlords. Even if they rape her, the fact it was rape means it wasn't an 'intimate personal relationship '
Domestic abuse is not defined by the whether or not the victim has any realistic way to escape her home, where she is enduring it.
Instead, it is defined by whether or not the perpetrator conforms to a tick box list of permitted relationships. People should protest, but they don't know. Organisations should change the definition, but the funding stream to the industry has become a charity industry, with donations and public funds arriving, no questions asked.
No questions about such things as the amounts creamed off, as mentioned above.
No questions about including men as foxes invited into the henhouse.
No questions about the definition which technically would include Melinda Gates as helpless, and exclude your disabled friend, beaten raped or robbed by neighbours or care staff or her landlord or, if in desperation because of housing shortage she was sofa surfing or flat sharing, by anyone with keys to her only home.