Elder Abuse is a social issue which affects the Health and Human Rights of a huge number of older persons around the world, and an occurrence which deserves the attention of the whole international community. The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day happens
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Learn about the state of the art of screening for elder abuse The first outcome of the SAVE project was a literature review, coordinated by the University of Minho, whose aim was to answer to three main questions: 1) what arguments can
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The University of Minho completed on the 23rd of February, a series of 4 training meetings on screening for elder abuse. The training took place at the School of Nursing and was attended by 33 health and social service professionals from various
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PCG Polska completed a series of 4 training meetings with the personnel of the John Paul II Geriatric Hospital in Katowice (EMC Silesia) regarding screening to detect potential victims of violence among the elderly. Doctors, nurses, caregivers, physiotherapists, psychologists and other employees
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Cyprus University of Technology organized the training on elder abuse screening tools in Limassol (Cyprus) on 28th of February and 4th of March 2022. The event attended 24 community nurses employed by the State Health Services Organization of Cyprus, who they are
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On February the 14th 2022 ANS and CADIAI completed their training on elder abuse screening tools in Bologna (Italy). The event targeted psychologists, social workers and coordinators of residential care facilities in Emili Romagna Region. Overall the training involved 19 professionals, 8
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Elder abuse is a widespread phenomenon worldwide. Using screening tools to identify cases of abuse could be a helpful strategy to support professionals in recognising the signals and indicators of mistreatment and ground the decision to request more comprehensive assessments. On the other hand, while
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A few days ago, on the 3rd of December 2021, the 2nd Transnational Partners’ Meeting in the SAVE project was held. Together with all the Partners we: summarized the work on the IO1 Literature and screening tools review (English version available here:
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From October the 13th to the 15th all SAVE partners were engaged in an online training of trainers event which aimed to provide them the necessary skills to deliver the SAVE-training programme developed as IO2 of the project. The event was a
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On October the 26th 2021 CADIAI and ANS organized in Bologna a first event to share with a public of selected professionals the initial achievements of the SAVE project. Overall the events gathered experts from different backgrounds including health care, ethics, law,
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