TORONTO –
La Commission des valeurs mobilières de l'Ontario (CVMO) recherche des membres pour son nouveau Comité consultatif d'experts pour les aînés, qui conseillera le personnel de la CVMO sur les questions touchant les investisseurs âgés et aidera la CVMO à élaborer des solutions adaptées.
« Le Comité consultatif d'experts pour les aînés permettra à la CVMO d'accéder à une équipe multidisciplinaire d'experts, nous fournissant de précieux commentaires en ce qui a trait à notre stratégie visant les investisseurs âgés, qui constitue une initiative importante pour la CVMO, a déclaré Maureen Jensen, présidente et chef de la direction de la CVMO. Le comité s'appuie sur nos efforts continus visant à mieux comprendre les besoins particuliers des investisseurs âgés. »
Le Comité consultatif d'experts pour les aînés conseillera le personnel en matière de politiques liées aux valeurs mobilières et de développements opérationnels qui ont une incidence sur les investisseurs âgés et formulera des commentaires sur les activités d'éducation et de sensibilisation afférentes de la CVMO. Le comité sera formé d'un maximum de 15 membres, y compris des représentants du monde juridique, du milieu universitaire, du secteur, des professionnels de la santé et des défenseurs des droits des aînés.
Le Comité consultatif d'experts pour les aînés, qui sera mis sur pied pour une période d'un an, se réunira environ quatre à six fois. Le comité sera présidé par Tyler Fleming, directeur du Bureau des investisseurs, qui dirige l'élaboration de la stratégie de la CVMO visant les aînés et des initiatives connexes.
Les parties intéressées sont invitées à présenter leur candidature par écrit, en indiquant leurs domaines d'exercice et leur expérience pertinente, au plus tard, le 29 juillet 2016. Les candidatures et les questions concernant le Comité consultatif peuvent être transmises par courriel à :
Denise Morris, chef Commission des valeurs mobilières de l'Ontario
La CVMO a pour mandat de protéger les investisseurs contre les pratiques déloyales, irrégulières ou frauduleuses et de favoriser des marchés financiers justes et efficaces, en plus de promouvoir la confiance en ceux-ci. Nous invitons les investisseurs à vérifier l'inscription de toute personne ou société offrant des occasions de placement et à consulter le matériel d'information de la CVMO à l'intention des investisseurs accessible à l'adresse http://www.osc.gov.on.ca.
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Seniors are an extremely important and growing segment of investors whose issues demand attention, and their needs and priorities are a key focus for Ontario’s Investor Office (InvestorOffice.ca).The Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Office sets the strategic direction and leads the OSC’s efforts in investor engagement, education, outreach and research. The Office also brings the investor perspective to policy-making and operations.
I became the Director of the operating branch last July, and we relaunched the Office in the fall of 2015. Since then, we have made modernizing investor education a priority through new tools and resources that recognize the changing ways that people access and interact with information. One of the ways we are doing this is through Fact Cards – digital cards containing information on investment topics that can be embedded into any website, article or blog post. This format allows organizations and individuals to deliver reputable investor education to their audiences without needing to develop the content themselves. Fact Cards cover topics that include retirement lessons from older Canadians, the basics of mutual funds and the red flags of investment fraud.
More than 20 organizations and individuals are partnering with the Investor Office to distribute and promote Fact Cards, including the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. It’s a key priority for the Investor Office to develop new resources to help prevent elder abuse, and through the CNPEA’s support of Fact Cards, important information to help prevent seniors’ investment fraud and financial abuse will be distributed and promoted across Canada. We’ve received great support from various organizations who appreciate being able to provide the public with important facts from an unbiased and trusted source, but on their own websites.
All Fact Cards are built for use on desktop, tablet and mobile devices, and are available in English and French. The catalogue of Fact Cards is available at osc.gov.on.ca/factcards and will be continuously updated and expanded. We encourage all organizations or individuals with an interest in our work to contact us at with partnership ideas or thoughts on new education topics to focus on.
Tyler Fleming is the Director of the Investor Office at the Ontario Securities Commission. The Investor Office sets the strategic direction and leads the OSC’s efforts in investor engagement, education, outreach and research. The Office also brings the investor perspective to policy-making and operations.
Tyler Fleming | Ontario Securities Commission | Investor Office | Director | Toronto ON
Phone: 416-593-8092 | | InvestorOffice.ca
Join BC’s 15-member Council to Reduce Elder Abuse in Wearing Purple on June 15th
to promote World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
Vancouver, British Columbia. June 15th is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the 15 members of BC’s Council to Reduce Elder Abuse (CREA) will be wearing something purple to commemorate this day and to shine a light on this important, yet seldom discussed, issue.
“The abuse of older adults - of our grandparents, neighbours, aunts, uncles or older friends - is something people rarely think about, or speak about,” says Martha Jane Lewis, CREA Chair and Executive Director of the BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support, “but each year thousands of older British Columbians experience some form of abuse. We receive hundreds of calls every month at the Seniors Abuse and Information Line (1 866 437-1940) from people seeking help,” she says.
By Margaret Easton
The relationship between frailty and elder abuse is receiving increasing attention in the research literature. In a previous blog, I reviewed research which suggested that normal age-related frailty leading to impairment in Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) poses a significant risk factor for financial exploitation. The authors of that study concluded that “the need of some older adults for help and assistance in accomplishing everyday activities appears to elicit verbal abusiveness and economic exploitation, but not other forms of abuse” (Acierno et al., 2011). In this blog, I’d like to share the results of a research article published last month that strongly suggests that economic exploitation in late life leads to increased mortality (Burnett et al., 2016).
By Heather Campbell
The concept of institutional elder abuse is often associated with the mistreatment, exploitation and rights violations experienced by residents in care home settings. However, older adults in correctional facilities can also be victims of these institutional harms, and elders with dementia are particularly vulnerable if they become caught up in the criminal justice system.
Under the current system, a criminally accused individual with dementia faces a long, difficult and dangerous journey. From time to time, for example, we hear tragic reports of people with dementia languishing in prison or forensic hospitals. In early 2016, for example, a 53-year-old Yukon man with severe dementia had been in jail for six weeks awaiting a fitness to stand trial assessment. He was eventually found unfit, but remained in jail while he waited for a risk assessment to be conducted at a forensic hospital.
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