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Find the latest news on a range of topics connected with understanding, preventing, and responding to elder abuse in our community.

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Neglect

Senior residents fight back against loneliness and isolation

Loneliness can be a problem in Melbourne's outer suburbs, but residents are fighting back

19/01/2025
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Neglect

Ageing with dignity behind bars: research begins

19/01/2025
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Neglect

Woman who left ill mother for weekend away spared jail

10/11/2024
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Neglect

Homelessness crisis in Margaret River leaves 65yo living in a tent for two years

12/10/2024
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Neglect

Connection between neglect and hearing loss in older Aussies

12/07/2024
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Neglect

Tasmanian coroner condemns 'troubling' lack of checks and balances

27/06/2024
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Neglect

Nurses training course for elder abuse and neglect now open

30/05/2024
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Neglect

1,000 cases of neglect reported each month 

28/02/2024

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