A $5 million media campaign aims to raise awareness of and eliminate elder abuse, which affects about one in six older people in Australia.
Grandparents being exploited, neglected or financially coerced will be the target of a new education campaign to eliminate abuse of older people in Australia.
“If an older person does not feel that they can reach out for help, then we have failed them,” Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will say in a speech on Monday, describing the statistics as disturbing. “We are really where child protection was 30 years ago and domestic violence was 20 years ago,” FitzgeraldThe NSW Ageing and Disability Commission’s abuse helpline received 14,025 calls in 2022-23, an increase of 12 per cent from the previous year.
“Our children – my children – will have to wait much longer for the wealth transfer to occur, and that wealth transfer is being pushed out by five to 10 years,” he said.
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