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Marta Hajek, executive director of Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario, says the past year has seen a 250% increase in calls to their Seniors Safety Line from older adults dealing with neglect and financial abuse.
She’s referring to the 83% of seniors living in the community in Ontario not those in long-term care or retirement homes who were forced into a lockdown and various restrictions for more than a year.
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“There’s a lot going on behind closed doors which is not even reported,” she said Monday on the eve of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
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It’s summertime at Silver Threads Seniors Club in Petawawa and along with the lockdown of our facility, we usually maintain a “slowdown” of most of the activities at this time of the year. Until further notice from our government, we have to continue to operate online with our activities. We will continue to offer frozen meals from Griffith Farm and Market and Faye has purchased a new supply of food items for your convenience.
Now that the summer weather is here, we may be spending more time outdoors in our backyards and it is important to wear sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses and proper footwear. Beware of the many pests in the garden and wear garden gloves when you’re tempting those weeds to loosen and come out of the earth.
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Where would we be without statistics? There are very few news articles that don’t depend on them for the basis of their stories. This was true before the pandemic, but how completely we depend on them has become clear over the last year.
We have all become familiar with numbers, graphs and pie charts, and whether you are watching COVID case counts, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, or deaths, the statistics have been up and down, horrifying or hopeful depending on the cycle, or ‘wave.’ The graph is starting to show a slight downward trend in most areas, and many of us are feeling hopeful that the worst is over, but we are cautioned to keep up our guard because we have seen how badly things can go sideways if we are not careful.