National Initiative For The Care Of The Elderly: 29 books

What You Can Expect and How You Can Help Helping someone through the last years of their life is one of the most difficult journeys anyone can take. As the illness progresses, you may have to make important decisions on behalf of someone close to you. You may be responsible for ensuring...

Being Least Intrusive emerges from the front-line challenges of practice in responding to situations of abuse, neglect and self-neglect of vulnerable First Nation adults living in on-reserve First Nation communities. It is a hybrid approach, which draws on indigenous knowledge, key concepts from...

What Is Income Tax? • Income tax is money that you pay to the government from your earnings. Your employer deducts income tax from your pay and gives it to the government. • The rate of tax you pay depends on how much money you make. The less income you make, the less income tax you pay the government.

These elements of a Coordinated Community Response have been identified as a result of more than fifteen years of experience with capacity building to address abuse in BC. Since 1995 more than 70 BC communities have been invited to develop networks and undertake activities to work toward a Coordinated...

Power of Attorney is a legal document that gives another person the power, or right, to make decisions for you. The person you authorize to make decisions for you is called the attorney. The attorney should be someone you trust and does not need to be a lawyer. • In Ontario, there are...

WHY AGE SPECIFIC APPROACHES TO MANAGING SUBSTANCE USE Substance Use • Many older adults begin to have problems with their substance use during times of transition or loss (e.g. forced retirement, bereavement, new or escalating health concerns, loss of independence) • Their relationship...

The following is the updated/revised version of the broad conceptual definition of mistreatment that was developed by participants in the Defining and Measuring Elder Abuse (DMEA) Definition Consensus workshop: “Mistreatment of older adults refers to actions/behaviours or lack of actions/behaviours...

An ethics resource for the community health sector This guidebook will provide a brief overview of compulsive hoarding, a review of relevant legislation, and consideration of the ethical tensions. A case study will walk through a reflective decision-making process in action. A resource list...

  Many grandparents in Ontario are raising their grandchildren. If you have taken on this important task, you are entitled to some assistance. This brochure provides legal information and a list of resources that may help you.

The Indicators of Abuse (IOA) checklist signals mistreatment of seniors. The IOA (pronounced Iowa) also helps sensitize the practitioner to important abuse issues. The IOA is practical for busy practitioners and useful in training intervenors and volunteers in cases of abuse to recognize the signs...

This tool contains seven chapters that are not directly linked to one another. Each chapter addresses a common health problem that should be detected and treated as early as possible and that is easy for people to assess themselves with no special medical knowledge. For each topic covered in...

  In Hand has been devised to support health and social service practitioners in their ethical reflection leading to decision-making during the intervention process in a senior abuse situation. It can be used at various points during the intervention process, as often as necessary as the situation develops.

SENIORS DESERVE TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT Abuse and neglect of an older person is any action or inaction by any person that causes harm to an older person. What To Do Acknowledge - Suspicion of abuse may develop over time. Accumulate and document evidence. Barriers - Fear...