Status of Women committee  To be clear about it, quite consistently across the country, about two-thirds of the calls that come to the attention of the community agencies relate to older women. It doesn't quite reflect the proportion within the population. But does that reflect that it's more hidden for ol

Status of Women committee  I guess the best I could offer is to look at what happens at an individual level. For instance, in the context of a particular teen, a police officer and a social worker would work together, as opposed to what happens more broadly. Many of our approaches really are victim focus

Status of Women committee  No, it's definitely not. We still tend to be very much focused on the individual as opposed to even the couple. As I say, we are starting to see these glimmers of hope in some communities. For example, within first nations communities, we're beginning to see some glimmers of tryi

Status of Women committee  I would just reinforce Lynn's comments that the multidisciplinary approach has gained a lot of prominence in this area, but “multidisciplinary” has typically tended to mean social work and health working together in most communities. Some cities are able to have other key players

Status of Women committee  I think it's less than a dozen.

Status of Women committee  I'd like to make a couple of points. There's one thing in terms of a definition.... Definitions sit within particular kinds of context and it's very useful for us to have a common definition in terms of our research. How that actually plays out at a policy level, how that actuall

Status of Women committee  They do have some differences in definitions in terms of their provincial strategies and things like that, but there are a lot of common elements. They draw fairly heavily on the World Health Organization definition, but there are different kinds--

Status of Women committee  Sure. I think Lynn would probably speak to that, but--

Status of Women committee  National awareness campaigns are expensive, just plain out-and-out really expensive. Of the $13 million earmarked for the federal elder abuse initiative, the federal government identified that about $9 million of that actually went to the national campaign. It's not that the ca

Status of Women committee  Looking at this federally, and particularly on the long-term care side, the big challenge will be those conversations in terms of health care, and so much of that responsibility falls on the provinces and the territories. We need to be mindful of the fact that long-term care is

Status of Women committee  I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective on that. I think Canada has been very strong in trying to avoid some of the challenges and problems within some other countries. For example, although there are some provinces that have been coming out with a protective approach,

Status of Women committee  Just following up on a couple of those points...[Technical Difficulty--Editor]...it's quite different. In general, we find that younger women—by which we mean women in their sixties, maybe into their early seventies—actually are at greater risk of physical abuse and psychological

Status of Women committee  First of all, I'd like to thank Status of Women for beginning this important and complex process of exploring the structural issues. It's important to look at the effect and the intersection of the provincial, territorial and federal government policies in the area. In many cases

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, members of the standing committee. Thank you very much for this opportunity to participate in this consultation. My name is Charmaine Spencer. I am the co-chair of the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. CNPEA--RCPMTA in French--is a national non-