Rotating Facts
In Manitoba, the most common type of elder abuse is emotional and financial.
According to Canadian research, 4 to 10 per cent of older adults will experience some form of abuse or neglect in their later years. That means that 6,000 to 16,000 older Manitobans are experiencing abuse right now.
Only one in five cases of elder abuse comes to the attention of those who can help.
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was launched by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) on June 15th, 2006
The theme for WEAAD is My World…Your World…Our World – Free of Elder Abuse.
The state of knowledge regarding elder abuse is 3 decades behind child abuse and 1 decade behind domestic violence.
Statistics Canada reported that when family members were indentified as the abusers, 42% were adult children and 31% were spouses
