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- Published: 19 August 2016
Newly released posters in Chinese and Punjabi!
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The Elder Abuse in Chinese and South Asian Communities project is currently in development. It is a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Elder Law, the University of Victoria Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly, Mosaic, and the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria. The project aims to develop culturally-relevant tools to help front-line workers, seniors, and their loved ones prevent, recognize, and respond to abuse in these communities, where elder abuse is often a highly stigmatized issue and considered a private family matter.
"This project involves research, needs assessment and tool development focused on elder abuse in Chinese and South Asian Communities in Victoria and the Vancouver lower mainland. The proposed project aims to:
- Build awareness to prevent, recognize and respond to elder abuse in the two largest ethnocultural minority communities in British Columbia, the Chinese and South Asians;
- Support front-line workers through education and access to relevant tools to respond effectively and protect older adults from these communities against elder abuse; and
- Create a shared leadership and collaborative network across the project’s partner organizations—University of Victoria’s Centre on Aging, the Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL), and NICE—and their affiliates to reduce elder abuse in these ethnocultural minority communities in BC."
(Source: Canadian Centre for Elder Law)
To find out more about this project, read our recent blog post detailing its phases and findings so far.