Group educating public on how to recognize guises
By PEGGY ARMSTRONG,
LINDSAY POST REPORTER
| February 18, 2009 |
KAWARTHA LAKES -Abuse of the elderly takes many guises, but Karen Anderson is determined to educate the public on how to recognize them and how to prevent physical, financial and emotional misuse.
Anderson is coordinator of the Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Elder Abuse Prevention Network. In her quest to protect some of the community's most vulnerable citizens, she has had a brochure printed that explains some of the forms that abuse can take and signs that a senior citizen may be experiencing it.
She presented the new brochure to the Committee Of the Whole (COW) last Tuesday and gave a presentation to councillors on the network's goals and accomplishments.
Anderson is taking "a two-pronged approach," she told The Lindsay Post prior to her presentation. "I have my five minutes with council," she said, to provide an overview of the network. In the fall she plans to launch the second prong, to go back to council and present what the network has accomplished and then lay out what financial assistance the network needs to remain viable.
To contact the Elder Abuse Prevention Network call 324-7323 or 1-800-461-0327. The website iswww.community-care.on.ca
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SOURCE: The Linday Post
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