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Preventing Violence against Older Persons: Intervention Approaches & Supportive Legislation

Learn about intervention approaches, practices, and supportive legislation to prevent violence against older persons. Explore short-term relief strategies, capacity-building strategies, and systems change strategies. Understand Canadian intervention approaches, such as adult protection legislation, advocacy, community response networks, and counseling. Discover effective intervention methods, considerations for consent and risk level, and how you can help by giving clear messages and assisting with safety planning. Be aware of your region's violence prevention and response resources, ensuring basic human rights apply to older persons.

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Preventing Violence against Older Persons: Intervention Approaches & Supportive Legislation

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  1. Section 3: INTERVENTIONModules 13/14: Violence Prevention Continuum / Intervention Approaches, Practices, Supportive Legislation Respect Aging:Preventing Violence against Older Persons Violence Prevention Initiative

  2. Agenda • Welcome • Learning together: • Intervention approaches, practices & supportive legislation • Small group activity • Reporting back to whole group • Wrap-up / Evaluation

  3. Patricia and Helen’s Story • 30-year relationship • Helen: • Dementia: 4 years • Loud, argumentative • Strikes out, chokes • Patricia: • Still cares for Helen

  4. ViolencePreventionContinuum 1. Short-Term & Emergency Relief Strategies 2. Capacity-Building Strategies 3. Systems Change Strategies

  5. Violence Prevention Continuum 1. Short-Term & Emergency Relief Strategies 2. Capacity-Building Strategies 3. Systems Change Strategies

  6. Canadian intervention approaches • Adult protection legislation • Advocacy • Community response networks (CRNs) • Consultation teams • Counselling

  7. Canadian intervention approaches • Hotline • Information and education • Multi-disciplinary team • Peer support and advocacy • Shelters, safe houses

  8. Effective intervention Consider: • Level of risk • Consent

  9. How you can help • Give clear messages • Help with safety planning. • Know the violence prevention and response resources in your region

  10. Howyou can help • Be careful when giving advice • Remember that basic human rights apply to older persons too

  11. It takes a community… • An effective response to violence against older persons requires coordination and collaboration among agencies, community groups, governments and individuals.

  12. Legislativeinterventions

  13. Federal laws • The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms • The Criminal Code of Canada

  14. Provincial laws • Human Rights Act • Mental Health Care & Treatment Act • Family Violence Prevention Act • Advance Health Care Directives Act • Enduring Powers of Attorney Act

  15. Provincial laws • An Act Respecting the Protection of Adults • Adult Protection Act replaces the Neglected Adults Welfare Act

  16. Provincial services • Victim Services • Legal Aid • Peace Bond • Emergency Protection Order

  17. Patricia and Helen’s Story • Interventions: • Helen: Day program for persons with dementia • Patricia: Caregivers’ group

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