June 15th, 2011 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

June 15, 2011

RIGHT AT HOME, COLUMBIA SC and INPEA Announces World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2011

INPEA WEAAD Contact: weaad@inpea.net

Local Contact:                                                                                                   

Jenny Barber RN OHNC

Director of Marketing                                                                                            

Right at Home,

Columbia SC

803-807-0560

www.rahcolumbia.com

 

Right at Home Columbia SC and INPEA Announces 6th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2011

 

Mark your calendars!  The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) announces the 6th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) on Wednesday, June 15, 2011.  Show the world you care about ending elder abuse and neglect by wearing something purple on this day.

 

Communities and municipalities will make proclamations declaring June 15, 2011 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) and hold events designed to raise their communities’ awareness of elder abuse.  The first Awareness Day in 2006 involved several hundred organisations and governmental bodies at international, national, regional, local, community and neighbourhood level, in every continent in the world. The day is in support of the United Nations International Plan of Action, which recognizes the significance of elder abuse as a public health and human rights issue. Governments, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, religious groups, professionals in the field of aging, interested individuals as well as older persons themselves will promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by organizing activities around the world to raise awareness of the cultural, social, economic and demographic processes affecting elder abuse and neglect.

 

Throughout the world, abuse and neglect of older persons is largely under-recognized or treated as an unspoken problem.  Unfortunately, no community or country in the world is immune from this costly, public health and human rights crisis.  Research indicates that public education campaigns like World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) are vital for informing people in a growing number of countries about elder abuse and active involvement of the media is central to its success.

 

Network for the Prevention for Elder Abuse (INPEA) was founded in 1997 and is dedicated to global dissemination of information as part of its commitment to worldwide prevention of elder abuse.  Acknowledging the diversity of culture, background, and life style of the world population, the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) aims to increase society's ability, through international collaboration, to recognize and respond to the mistreatment of older people in whatever setting it occurs, so that the latter years of life will be free from abuse, neglect and exploitation.  For more information, please see our website at: www.inpea.net.

 

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Right at Home offers in home care and personal care assistance to seniors and disabled adults who want to continue to live independently. Right at Home directly employs all caregiving staff, each of whom are thoroughly screened, trained, bonded and insured prior to their entering a client’s home. All ongoing care is monitored and supervised by local independent Right at Home franchisees. Right at Home’s national office is based in Omaha, Neb. with more than 175 franchise offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Brazil. For more information on Right at Home, visit the company’s web site at www.rightathome.net. To read the Right at Home caregiving blog, visit http://www.rightathome.net/seniorhomecare. To sign up for Right at Home’s free adult caregiving e-newsletter, Caring Right at Home, please go to www.caregivingnews.com.