NGO INVOLVEMENT IN ELDER FINANCIAL ABUSE RESEACH AND PREVENTION: AN IRISH EXAMPLE

摘要

Age Action is one of Ireland’s leading NGOs for older people. It has a long track record of research and campaigning to raise public awareness of elder abuse and improve early detection and prevention. In 2011 it published results of peer-led research into older people’s understanding of elder abuse, which shed light on measures they believed could reduce abuse. The research involved older people in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland and was carried out in conjunction with the University of Ulster, Queen’s University, Belfast, the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust and the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre. The focus of the symposium presentation will be on a current two-year project, funded by the Ulster Bank Community Impact Foundation, to raise awareness among older people and bank staff about financial elder abuse and how older people can protect themselves against online fraud and scams.