{"id":586,"date":"2018-11-16T05:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=586"},"modified":"2018-11-16T05:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T05:05:36","slug":"new-training-aims-to-stop-elder-abuse-as-help-centre-calls-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/new-training-aims-to-stop-elder-abuse-as-help-centre-calls-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"New Training Aims to Stop Elder Abuse as Help Centre Calls Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-fluid title-meta\">\n<div class=\"span12\">\n<p class=\"strapline\">A world-first Elder Abuse Prevention and Support Framework and a new digital aged care staff training system are underway to protect vulnerable senior Australians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A world-first Elder Abuse Prevention and Support Framework and a new digital aged care staff training system are underway to protect vulnerable senior Australians.<br \/>\nThe Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) has developed the initiatives, thanks to a $3 million Liberal National Government investment to tackle elder abuse.<br \/>\nPreventing and addressing elder abuse is a top priority, and aged care advocacy and giving a voice to senior Australians play a crucial part in this.<br \/>\nThe new national framework \u2013 developed from advocacy experience in Western Australia and South Australia &#8211; aligns services to prevent elder abuse and will allow OPAN\u2019s advocates in every State and Territory to better support senior Australians, and provide even stronger advocacy for their rights and protection.<br \/>\nThe new aged care staff training tool\u00a0<em>Talk to Us First\u00a0<\/em>is an innovative way to help aged care providers educate their workforce about OPAN\u2019s services and how to help care recipients and their families access aged care advocacy.<br \/>\nIt also highlights the importance of increasing awareness of the Charter of Care Recipients&#8217; Rights and Responsibilities.<br \/>\nThe initiatives come as new figures from OPAN WA service provider Advocare show a significant rise in calls to the State\u2019s Elder Abuse Helpline.<br \/>\nAdvocare regularly receives around 60 calls a month about elder abuse concerns but these rose to over 100 in October.<br \/>\nOPAN is receiving funding of $27.5 million over three years to provide the National Aged Care Advocacy Program and has been provided with an additional $3 million to expand its work on elder abuse.<br \/>\nAs part of the\u00a0<em>More Choices for a Longer Life<\/em>\u00a0Budget package the Government is providing an additional $22 million to a variety of services, to tackle elder abuse.<br \/>\nThe funding will include the establishment of trials of specialist elder abuse units in legal services, more support for family counselling and mediation services, and the advancement of health-justice partnerships.<br \/>\nA national plan to co-ordinate activities to combat elder abuse is also currently being developed.<br \/>\nStopping the abuse of our elders \u2013 be it financial physical or emotional &#8211; is everyone\u2019s responsibility and we owe it to senior Australians to ensure they are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.<br \/>\nSenior Australians, their families or carers in need of aged care advocacy should go to the OPAN website or call 1800 700 600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world-first Elder Abuse Prevention and Support Framework and a new digital aged care staff training system are underway to protect vulnerable senior Australians. A world-first Elder Abuse Prevention and Support Framework and a new digital aged care staff training system are underway to protect vulnerable senior Australians. The Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/new-training-aims-to-stop-elder-abuse-as-help-centre-calls-rise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Training Aims to Stop Elder Abuse as Help Centre Calls Rise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}