Course Description
This course has been designed as continuing education for practical nurses who have a vested interest in recognizing, responding to, and preventing instances of elder abuse/ mistreatment. The main purpose of this course is to bring further awareness to the issue of elder abuse and to develop strategies that can be used to support older persons in situations where abuse is suspected or a person has disclosed that he or she is being abused.
This course includes the following topics:
- Defining abuse
- Social, political and legal issues
- Theories
- Risk factors
- Indegenous senior adults
- Forms of abuse
