On October 31, 2022, the Chair will have completed 12 years of work (2 mandates of 5 years, interspersed by an extension of 2 years). It is with great emotion and a sense of accomplishment that Marie Beaulieu announces her departure as Chairholder on November 1st, 2022. Two months later, being on January 1st, 2023, she will transition to retirement, a moment that her European colleagues poetically call "free time". This will be a pivotal point after more than 35 years of involvement in countering mistreatment, with more than 30 years as a university professor.

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

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.

On September 22 in Geneva, 50 persons from everywhere around the world were designated as being part of the international leaders as part of the UN's Decade of Healthy Ageing. This initiative with the goal of highlighting 50 actors that, with their actions in different sectors, contribute to transform the world to make it a better place to live for older adults of today and tomorrow.