The coercive and controlling behaviour report, which I know this committee was recently reviewing, came out with key recommendations. They dovetail extremely well with elder abuse, as well. Because some of the engagement could include keeping people away from other people, making sure there is an interruption in the flow of their lives, in terms of coercive or near-coercive behaviours, it's CanAge's recommendation that report number 9, “The Shadow Pandemic: Stopping Coercive and Controlling Behaviour in Intimate Relationships”, would be appropriate if expanded to elder abuse and neglect.
For clarity, the recommendation was as follows:
Everyone commits an offence who repeatedly or continuously engages in controlling or coercive conduct towards a person with whom they are connected that they know or ought to know could, in all the circumstances, reasonably be expected to have a significant impact on that person and that has such an impact on that person.
Again, the recommendation from the committee was around considering a hybrid offence with a maximum of five years imprisonment. The expansion of this particular provision would be appropriate to consider beyond intimate partner and domestic violence relationships to include the elder abuse sphere, as well.