I would say the laws are very different. In some areas, their civil laws are much more involved in elder abuse. There's mandatory signalling. In the States, you have to signal any situation of elder abuse, but yet they don't identify more situations of elder abuse than we do here in the provinces where there's not mandatory signalling. For the reasons that were said before, you have to have the proof.
Does this fall in line? Yes, it does. I do know that in some countries and in some states they're developing similar laws, but they're also developing a whole area of elder law so that everything is looked at and taken into consideration. The people who prosecute are experts in seniors' situations. They understand dementia, they understand loss of autonomy, they understand caregiving stress, so they know how to do it and they work with the police officers. The judges, too, are educated.