The Canadian Association of Retired Persons, also known as CARP, has a comprehensive strategy to eradicate elder abuse, and one of the recommendations that they do give – and this one I thought was quite interesting – is to create an elder abuse hotline. Because we don’t have all the services and resources in the small communities especially, and I always like to refer that we have eight communities that don’t even have nurses, who are they going to speak to report this elder abuse? If we had a 1-800 hotline that could be widely known across the North with the capacity to redirect to local service agencies and sensitive to cultural and linguistic needs of some of our elders in the communities, would the Minister look at creating something along those lines, or in the current hotline that we do have, have some type of portion of it dedicated to a senior support system where they can get the help that they need?
Alfred Moses on Question 704-17(5): Elder Abuse
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2015. See this statement in context.
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