Traduction de «elder » (Anglais → Français) :

A strong research component, where possible, resulting in new medicines for the elderly, new treatments or diagnostic tools, new institutional or organisational approaches and new solutions allowing for a better life quality for the elderly.

That definition includes many forms of elder abuse including physical abuse — any act or acts of violence or rough treatment causing injury or physical discomfort; psychological or emotional abuse — any act, including confinement, isolation, verbal assault, humiliation, intimidation, infantilization, or any other treatment which may diminish the sense of identity, dignity, and self-worth; financial abuse or exploitation — the misuse of an elderly person's funds and assets, obtaining property or funds without his or her knowledge and full consent; sexual abuse — any sexual behaviour directed towards an elderly person without his or her ...[+++] full knowledge and consent, including sexual assault, sexual harassment or the use of pornography; medication abuse — misuse of an elderly person's medications and prescriptions, including withholding medication and over sedating; violation of civil or human rights — the denial of an elderly person's fundamental human rights according to legislation, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, for example, including withholding of information, denial of privacy, denial of visitors, restriction of liberty or mail censorship; and finally, active neglect — intentional withholding of basic necessities or care.

They included the National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly, the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly and the Réseau FADOQ.

We need something more comprehensive, including an elder abuse hotline; the creation of elder abuse consultants, modelled on a Manitoba government initiative; and changes to the Criminal Code of Canada to ensure appropriate sentences for perpetrators of elder abuse.

Groups need financial and other resources to hire and train responders to intervene in cases of elder abuse, and to set up elder shelters and affordable housing, as my colleague for Pierrefonds—Dollard said, and elder abuse hotlines and victim support services, and to develop pioneering initiatives such as financial literacy programs for seniors to help them protect themselves from fraud.

In general, I want to state that I agree with the principles set out in the first paragraph of the legislative summary, that this amendment will help ensure that sentencing for crimes against elderly Canadians reflects the significant impact crime has on their lives, for people who target the elderly because of their vulnerability, for example, financial advisers who take people's life savings; who pay caregivers who exploit the elderly and take their money but do not give them the help they need and who leave the older person without money and neglected; and who rob the elderly and target them in the street or in their home because th ...[+++]ey know they are a weak victim, deserve to have a sentence that reflects the impact this has had on their victim's life.