If you are, or someone you know is, in Victoria and experiencing elder abuse, call our confidential helpline on 1300 368 821.
“Identifying and addressing elder abuse” is designed to provide Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) providers with the essential knowledge needed to recognise, understand, and address elder abuse when working with older individuals.
The 2024-25 State Budget was handed down by the Treasurer, Tim Pallas on 7 May 2024. COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria (SRV) have developed a member briefing to inform older Victorians and organisations.
A COTA Victoria survey has found that many older women experiencing chronic pain struggle to find effective support and feel marginalised by health services that lack necessary empathy and understanding. Too often, women feel that they are expected to just be stoic and accept pain as an inevitable part of ageing.
Access full submission Download briefing as PDF A major milestone in the reform of the aged care system was reached
Download full report as PDF The COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria Annual Report 2022-2023 is now available to download.
Download full publication as PDF The 2023-24 State Budget was handed down by the Treasurer, Tim Pallas on 23 May
Download full publication as PDF Our COTA Victoria Strategic Plan 2023-2025 will ensure we can continue to support older Victorians
The multiple intersections of mental health and elder abuse are complex, including both the mental health of the older person and the mental health of those who perpetrate elder abuse.
Seniors Rights Victoria provides a helpline and an advice service to prevent and respond to elder abuse. We have analysed data from these services to better understand how the lockdown restrictions in Victoria affected the clients – and potential clients – of our service.
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.
Ageism can be defined as a process of stereotyping and discriminating against a person or people, simply because they are older.
Access full publication This free, tailored guide for older LGBTI community members looks at how to plan for your: future
This free, practical guide tells you, clearly and simply, what you need to do after the death of a partner.
Callers to our service often ask why there is no requirement that a person report elder abuse, similar to mandatory reporting frameworks that exist in other countries or in other contexts, such as child protection.
This discussion paper explores the ways gender and sexual identity can affect an individual’s experience of elder abuse, mistreatment and disrespect. It also includes a discussion of the often under recognised crime of sexual assault of older women.
This discussion paper explains how elder abuse is a form of family violence, and draws attention to its unique causes and characteristics.
Seniors Rights Victoria’s position, drawn from available evidence and our casework experience, is that we have sufficient laws in place to address elder abuse, but these laws lack effective implementation.
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).
