Policy and research

Seniors Rights Victoria provides an advice call service to older people who have experienced elder abuse. A lawyer and advocate will schedule a phone call or meeting with the older person to give them information specific to their situation. In order to provide this service, extensive information is collected from the older person about their demographics, the elder abuse context and the perpetrator. This de-identified information has been collected for all advice call clients over a seven-year period (July 2012 to June 2019) and analysed to better understand elder abuse within Victoria.

Summary of the data for all advice call clients who experienced elder abuse over a seven-year period (July 2012 to June 2019) was for this report.

This study aimed to better understand the older person’s experience of elder abuse, the interventions used to address elder abuse and the outcome of the intervention for ex-clients who contacted Seniors Rights Victoria (SRV).