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The Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults is proud to present its awareness raising campaign to mistreatment of older adults in private seniors' residences, developped in collaboration with older adults living in private seniors' residences.

The Research Chair on Mistreatment of Older Adults is looking for employees, volunteers or their supervisors within non-profit organization, cooperative or social economy enterprise in home care whose mission is to offer direct services to informal caregivers to participate to a research project.

Kevin St-Martin has finished his master's thesis about the use of virtual reality as a tool to counter the victimisation of older adults.

The Chair is proud to contribute to countering mistreatment of older adults on the international stage. The project Factors shaping the global political priority of addressing elder abuse, which has for objective to identify the issues and priorities which need to put on the forefront of international political agendas for years to come is complete. It relies both on a document inventory of the desk review* type containing 123 scientific articles and documents taken from the grey literature and 26 semi-directed interviews with key informants of different regions of the world.

Three students finished this summer and at the beginning of autumn 2022 their academic work within the Chair.

Over the past few months, the Chair has disseminated the results of its participatory research with the CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS, on psychological mistreatment and material and financial mistreatment of older adults with disabilities. This project funded by the OPHQ has captured interest on the national and international scene and several requests have been made to have access to the documentation in English.

The report: Enhancement of Canadian Data on the Abuse of Older Persons: An exploratory study, which was produced by members of the Chair has been made available by the Department of Justice Canada. This Canadian exploratory study sought to explore the feasibility of filling national data gaps in the area of abuse of older persons in effort to respond to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada’s mandate letter commitment to improve data collection on “elder abuse”.

On March 23, Marie Beaulieu was received during a virtual meeting of the OPHQ’s board to present the results of the research funded by the organisation as part of 49th measure of the Government Action Plan to Counter Mistreatment of Older Adults 2017-2022.

The Réseau Québécois de Recherche sur la Vieillissement (RQRV) allocated a $25,000 grant to Professor Mélanie Levasseur (Univ of Sherbrooke) to conduct a project entitled: Redefining Social Participation in Old Age: The voices of older women and men from the baby-boomer generation as the key to healthy aging?

The Chair’s Research Report on the project Psychological and financial mistreatment of older adults with disabilities in Québec, funded by the Office des personnes handicapées du Québec, has been finalised.