Selected Resources
This safety card (718 KB) provides guidance to health and community professionals on how to talk to patients about any concerning behavior of those around them and encourages early education about emotional, physical, and financial harassment, abuse and neglect.
It was developed for those patients/clients with agency and capacity in non-crisis, non-emergency situations that provides information about healthy and safe relationships, and the impact of unhealthy relationships on health and wellbeing. Topics include financial, emotional, and physical abuse and exploitation, education and prevention strategies, and information on seeking support.
This article (PDF 691 KB) provides an overview of domestic violence in later life and explores ways that physicians and other health care providers can improve their intervention and prevention efforts in abuse in later life cases
This webinar discusses signs of elder abuse and neglect and how health care providers can identify and respond to potential older victims. It also describes how victim service providers and other professionals can engage health care providers to work collaboratively with them and how health care providers can play on multidisciplinary case coordination teams.