If you are, or someone you know is, in Victoria and experiencing elder abuse, call our confidential helpline on 1300 368 821.
Recordings are now available online for the International Access to Justice Online Forum 2022, hosted by Victoria Law Foundation (VLF) and UCI Law Civil Justice Research Initiative.
Here you can read the abstracts for the presentations that SRV staff made at NEAC 2022
Seven of SRV’s staff attended the National Elder Abuse Conference (NEAC), in Hobart, in February 2022.
The National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) has released a report What Do Older People Want from Their Healthcare?
Compass has a great resource available for people in Victoria to increase their understanding of making a power of Attorney. A power of attorney is a legal document that allows you to nominate a person, multiple people, or a trustee organisation to act as your decision-maker and manage decisions on your behalf.
13YARN [Thirteen YARN] is the first national crisis support line for mob who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping.
Recently launched Hands Up For Justice, is calling for an increase in funding for community legal centres. Hands Up For
Seniors Rights Victoria collects a lot of data about who calls our helpline and why. We reviewed our helpline data over the final six months (July-December) of 2021 and compared the data to the same six months the previous year.
Seniors Rights Victoria is undertaking a review of our Helpline service. We have contracted Lirata Consulting to conduct the review.
Domestic Violence Victoria (DV Vic) and the Domestic Violence Resource Centre (DVRCV) have united to form Safe and Equal, Victoria’s
Each February the Victoria Law Foundation celebrates the beginning of the legal year with a legal sector breakfast in Melbourne’s iconic Hardware Lane. Due to the global pandemic 2022’s Legal Laneway Breakfast was held online.
A campaign to raise awareness of elder abuse has been launched by the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Long time volunteer, Stephen, is valuing his voluntary role at Seniors Rights Victoria.
The first public hearing for the parliamentary inquiry into support for older Victorians from migrant and refugee backgrounds will be live broadcast next Monday 31 January.
The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing is offering a free Diversity Webinar series for staff working in the Aged Care sector.
As part of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2021, SRV hosted a conversation on ageing. These are snapshots, produced by students from the Bachelor of Screen Media at Victoria University.
SRV’s Community Education Officer, Lucy Best, was part of an event for Yarra Seniors Festival.
The Bouverie Centre delivers livestreamed training workshops on elder abuse as part of the Integrated model of care for responding to suspected elder abuse.
A family agreement is an arrangement between an older person and someone else regarding care and living arrangements. Compass information explains more.
Pamela is a 71yo woman who was encouraged by her son Leo to sell her house and live with him and his wife. Pamela contacted SRV for assistance with issues with the sale.
Polaron Languages Service invited Seniors Rights Victoria to participate as guest speakers on Ticker Talk, to discuss how we supports multicultural communities.
Lawyer Bill O’Shea was given honorary life membership of the Law Institute of Victoria.
Primary prevention aims to stop abuse from occurring in the first place by changing the attitudes and social conditions that drive it
