👴🏻 Elder Abuse Awareness Day

📌 What: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

📅 When: June 15

🌏 Where: National

❓ Why: Raise awareness and acknowledge elder abuse as a public health and human rights issue.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Communities around the world have honored this day to raise the visibility of elder abuse by organizing events to share information and promote resources and services that can help increase seniors’ safety and well-being.

👴🏼👵🏼 While the global pandemic has put many of the elderly health at risk, it has also impacted their social networks, health services, jobs and pensions.

Elder abuse includes but not limited to:

🖐️ Physical Abuse

😞 Emotional Abuse

🚫 Sexual Abuse

💵 Financial Exploitation

🛌 Neglect or abandonment

🙏🏼 Let's honor this landmark and continue raising public awareness of elder abuse with events across the country. #worldelderabuseday

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