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Title: Section 1: RECOGNITION Module 4: Gender dynamics of violence against older persons


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Section 1 RECOGNITIONModule 4 Gender
dynamics of violence against older persons
Respect AgingPreventing Violence against Older
Persons
  • Violence Prevention Initiative

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Agenda
  • Welcome
  • Brainstorming
  • Learning together
  • Gender dynamics of violence against older persons
  • Small group activity
  • Reporting back to whole group
  • Wrap-up / Evaluation

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Gender and violence
  • Most victims of violence are women.
  • Most perpetrators of violence are men.

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Perpetrators
  • 8,500 Canadians 65yrs were the victim of a
    violent crime (2011)
  • 34 were victimized by family
  • 1 in 5 were victimized by an acquaintance
  • 27 were victimized by a stranger
  • A grown child was 1.5 times higher than a spouse
    to victimize an older person
  • More older females victimized by a spouse than
    older males.

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Victims
  • Older women
  • majority of victims of sexual /physical violence
  • higher rates of family violence
  • more likely to be victimized by spouse,
  • ex-spouse or adult child
  • Older men
  • higher rate of reported violent crime
  • more likely to be victimized by a person outside
    the family

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Gender and ageism
  • Ageism negative stereotyping, prejudice or
    discrimination against older people based on age
  • older persons seen as weak, dependent
  • a factor in gender violence against older persons
  • Adult sons power based on gender and on not
    being old
  • Older persons tend to be harmed by adult sons

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Older female victims of violence
  • Murdered ? by spouse or son
  • Emotionally or financially abused
  • Family homicide doubled
  • Poverty
  • Live longer
  • More chronic disease
  • Greater risk of injury from violence

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Older male victims of violence
  • 40 of all older victims of violence (2011)
  • Murdered ? by son
  • Victimized by an acquaintance or stranger

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