Share your thoughts: Creating a federal policy definition of “senior abuse”

From: Employment and Social Development Canada

Current status: Closed

This consultation ran from June 15, 2021 to July 22, 2021.

Senior abuse is an important human rights issue. It is also a social and public health issue that can undermine an older person’s:

We commit to strengthening Canada’s approach to senior abuse. To that end, we asked for feedback to create a federal policy definition of “senior abuse”. Currently, there is no standard in Canada. It can mean different things to different people depending on their life and ethno cultural experience.

A federal definition will support more consistent and informed:

Note: While this issue is commonly known as “elder abuse”, the term “elder” has a distinct cultural meaning for Indigenous communities in Canada. In recognition of this, we will use “senior abuse” to describe this issue throughout the consultation.

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Key questions

The online survey focused on themes related to support defining “senior abuse”.

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