Translation of "Dépistage de la violence envers les personnes âgées " (French → English) :

identification of abused older people [ identifying abuse | detecting abuse ]

Taking the next step to stop woman abuse: from violence prevention to individual, family, community and societal health: a practical vision of collaboration and change

abuse and neglect of older adults [ abuse and neglect of the elderly | elder abuse and neglect ]

Definition: Disorders characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of dissocial, aggressive, or defiant conduct. Such behaviour should amount to major violations of age-appropriate social expectations; it should therefore be more severe than ordinary childish mischief or adolescent rebelliousness and should imply an enduring pattern of behaviour (six months or longer). Features of conduct disorder can also be symptomatic o ...[+++]f other psychiatric conditions, in which case the underlying diagnosis should be preferred. Examples of the behaviours on which the diagnosis is based include excessive levels of fighting or bullying, cruelty to other people or animals, severe destructiveness to property, fire-setting, stealing, repeated lying, truancy from school and running away from home, unusually frequent and severe temper tantrums, and disobedience. Any one of these behaviours, if marked, is sufficient for the diagnosis, but isolated dissocial acts are not.

In conclusion, elder abuse is a social issue, and in the ways of social movements we would analogize the domestic violence movement and the children's rights movement as being now the elder rights movement.

Researchers have recognized and documented that violence towards animals is both a component and a symptom of child, spousal, and elder abuse as well as an indicator of the potential for increasing violence and dangerousness in offenders.

15. Points out that women with disabilities are often victims of violence and all forms of exploitation; calls on the Member States to introduce support mechanisms and to take vigorous measures to combat all forms of violence against people with disabilities, in particular women, elderly people and children, who are frequently victims of mental, physical and sexual violence; notes that almost 80 % of women with disabilities are victims of violence and that the risk of sexual violence is higher for them than for other women; regrets that EU and national legislation to prevent exploitation, violence and abuse often lacks a focus on disa ...[+++]bility; recommends that the Member States consider developing national strategies relating to access to justice and protection from abuse for women with disabilities; calls on the European Institute for Gender Equality to carry out studies on the situation of girls and women with disabilities in relation to violence;

We have with us today Josephine Santos, program manager, long-term care best practices initiative, from the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario; Melanie Perka, program supervisor of social work, elder abuse intervention team, from Catholic Social Services; and from the City of Edmonton, Patrick Power, community development social worker, elder abuse intervention team—and we see the elder abuse intervention team as one body here.