Resources - Tools for Service Providers
This section of the website has been designed to reflect a wide variety of views and perspectives of older abuse, using video, computer animation and downloadable electronic publications.
Training Manuals
Core Curriculum & Resource Guide
This 147 page Interactive PDF eBook educates homecare workers about the topic of elder abuse and how to effectively take action. This guide has been designed to:
- reflect a wide variety of views and perspectives about Elder Abuse in Ontario.
- provide information about networks, organizations, projects, and subsequent resources and successes.
- offer relevant/usable information to help all those who interact with seniors continue to create and maintain an environment of safety and trust in which the senior may choose to live with dignity & respect.
- Abuse of Older Adults
These are interactive presentation materials that are ideal for use in a classroom or workshop setting, to introduce the subject of elder abuse. - Basic Introduction I (PDF 18 pages, 760 KB)
- Basic Introduction II (PDF 26 pages, 880 KB)
- Guide for Presenters of Abuse of Older Adults Workshops (PDF 20 pages, 110 KB)
- Bibliography by Category for research materials (PDF 18 pages, 50 KB)
- Bibliography by Organization for research materials (PDF 25 pages, 60 KB)
- A Healing Approach to Elder Abuse & Mistreatment (PDF 125 pages 1.2 MB)
Restorative Justice Approaches to Elder Abuse Project, 2003 - Breaking the Silence: Best Practices for Responding to the Abuse of Older Adults
Family Service Association of Toronto
www.fsatoronto.com - Community Awareness and Response: Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults (PDF 95 pages, 2.2 MB)
Family Violence & Prevention Initiative, Health Canada - Community Education, Prevention and Response: A Community Training Manual for those who want to Address the Issue of the Abuse of Older Adults in their Community
Advocacy Centre for the Elderly: Preston, J and Wahl, J; 2002
www.advocacycentreelderly.org - Co-ordinated Community Response Agreement: Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults in Peterborough County and City
Abuse Prevention of Older Adults Network of Peterborough
www.olderadultabuse.org - Domestic Abuse in Later Life: A Competency-Based Training Manual for Meals on Wheels and Other Elder Services Staff
The Rural Victimization Project, Florida
http://familyvio.ssw.fsu.edu - Elder Abuse Resource Manual (PDF 48 pages, 700 KB)
CCAC Timiskaming - Looking Beyond the Hurt: A Service Provider's Guide to Elder Abuse
Seniors Resource Centre of Newfoundland and Labrador
www.seniorsresource.ca - Resource and Training Kit for Service Providers: Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults
National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca
Money Matters
Developed by the BC Centre for Advocacy Support, this program describes some key facts and makes suggestions to help to prevent financial abuse or fraud. It is linked to the Money Matters interactive video workshop that BCCEAS offers, as well as the Money Matters For Seniors video. The Money Matters workshop shows seniors how to avoid financial abuse (often by family, friends or caregivers) by using the services available to them at their banks, credit unions or trust companies to protect their money, their property and their independence.
Download:
Money Matters (PDF brochures) – English, Chinese, French, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Spanish, Vietnamese
Free From Harm
This 25-page interactive eBook is designed for used by service providers and front-line workers dealing with the abuse of older women. The guide introduces practices and tools, including interviewing techniques and the creation of safety plans, that will be of use in assessing and responding to individual cases of abuse.
Interactive Animated Learning eTools are fictional characterizations that have been developed to allow you to recognize emotional and financial abuse among seniors.
Video section features 30-second Public Service Announcements that can be used as TV commercials that are suitable for broadcast, and case study training videos.
Creating Awareness of Elder Abuse through Drama
This program is directed towards the older population, caregivers and the community as a whole, in order to raise awareness that abuse of older people is a serious problem. The kit provides scripts, production notes, questions and answers, and action and prevention tips for train-the –trainer programs. To purchase copies of the kit contact: Oshawa Senior Citizen Centres at 905-576-6712, or czavrel@oshawa.ca for further information contact the authors:
Joan Hill: 905-436-1222 / jmhill@durham.net
Roxy Barnes: 905-623-5327 / r.c.barnes@sympatico.ca
