Tag: Elder Abuse

Josephine Pon, Alberta’s seniors and housing minister, unveiled a new five-year strategy to combat elder abuse last Tuesday. The document, A Collective Approach: Alberta’s strategy for preventing and addressing elder abuse, is the province’s first new approach to the problem in 10 years.  The strategy outlines opportunities to collaborate with community organizations, front-line workers, law […]

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The Alberta government is providing $750,000 over two years to the Alberta Elder Abuse Awareness Council (AEAAC) to develop community responses against elder abuse. With these funds, the council will provide one-time funding to the province’s 31 eligible coordinated community responses (CCRs). AEAAC  started as a group of service providers who see elder abuse as […]

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