"BC Care Providers Association have produced a Made-in-BC roadmap for strengthening and innovating care for seniors. In the plan, we have 30 recommendations, grouped under four pillars.
- Investing in People
- Investing in Infrastructure
- Investing in Quality of Life for seniors
- Investing in Innovation
Over the past year we reached out to British Columbians for their views on seniors care in our province. It is thanks to them that we now have this roadmap to create 21st Century care for BC’s elderly population."
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Source: BC Care Providers Association
The following resource is part of the Family Violence Initiative, funded by the RCMP. Find similar tools by searching for the FVIF tag or consult the list of available resources.
"Written by Jenny Horsman, this issue paper is intended as a tool to raise awareness about the abuse of older women. Although much of this data comes from Ontario, it is not intended as a description of abuse against older women in one particular region of Canada. It is designed to raise questions about what is revealed and what is concealed by different understandings of the issue and to examine ways of addressing the problem. (...)
This paper is part of the on-going work, in collaboration with Family Services of Toronto and the BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses, on the abuse of older women."
Source: Springtide Resources (formerly Education Wife Assault)
"With a growing number of Canadians, health and social care professionals, economists, and national organizations suggesting its time for a National Senior Strategy, this website has been conceived as a way to provide an evidence-based view on how to consider the concepts that could and should be considered and included in a national approach."
Source: National Institute on Ageing
The following resource is part of the Family Violence Initiative, funded by the RCMP. Find similar tools by searching for the FVIF tag or consult the list of available resources.
"This report explores how and why family violence is an important public health issue for Canadians and what can be done about it. Included in this report are the following sections:
- Impacts on Canadians explores the extent of family violence in Canada and its impacts on the health and well-being of Canadians.
- Influencing the risk for family violence examines various individual, family/social, community and societal factors that influence the risk for family violence.
- Life course perspective provides a snapshot of family violence over the lifespan by exploring child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and mistreatment of older adults.
- Preventing family violence looks at how approaches and practices are addressing family violence through primary prevention."
This report will be presented at the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in September 2016.
"The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the comprehensive report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, prepared pursuant to Council resolution 24/20. In the present report, the Independent Expert assesses the implementation of existing international instruments with regard to older persons while identifying best and good practices and gaps in the implementation of existing laws related to the promotion and protection of the rights of older persons. The report also provides an analysis of the human rights implications of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002."
Source: United Nations Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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