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Protecting Seniors
- Ontario Seniors Seminars - provide seniors
with valuable information on healthy aging and healthy lifestyles in
communities across the province, including seminars on advance care
planning, safe medication use, avoiding financial frauds and scams,
safe driving, and in the near future healthy eating and the business
of aging.
- Ontario
Provincial Police (O.P.P.) Seniors Assistance Team - Ontario's senior
population is growing at a rapid rate. By the year 2021, there will
be as many seniors living in Canada (19%), as there are children. As
a result, the O.P.P. has established a Seniors Assistance Team, comprised
of 3 officers, in anticipation of dealing with issues that will arise
surrounding this growth.
The purpose of the Seniors Assistance Team is to provide strategic crime
analysis and research with respect to the impact of seniors/elder abuse
and vulnerable persons' activity in Ontario and then develop solutions
and operational strategies to lessen the impact of victimization.
- Fraud
Free Calendar Tips for avoiding common scams, most of them targeting
seniors are contained in the 2005 Fraud Free Calendar, launched Dec.
17, 2001 at the Older Women's Network Co-op in Toronto. The Ministry
of Consumer and Business Services produces the calendar in partnership
with the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat and other government and private
sector sponsors.
- Charitable Donations - Get the Facts Before You Give
Know the Facts
Donations are a critical source of funding for many worthwhile causes. Unfortunately, there are con artists who pretend to be raising money for charity, but keep donations for their personal gain. They may contact you by mail, e-mail, telephone or in person. Once a donation has been made, there is usually nothing you can do to get it back. Before making any donation, be careful! For more information, visit the Ministry of the Attorney General website.
- Retirement Homes - Complaints Response and
Information Service (CRIS)
- Ontario Human
Rights
- Listing of Initiatives
for Falls Prevention Among Seniors Living in the Community
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