Resources
Framing Age Message Guide and related resources
By the Southern Melbourne Elder Abuse Prevention Network
The tips and principles in the Framing Age Message Guide will help everyone better understand how to communicate about age, ageing and issues affecting older people in a way that reduces ageist attitudes, stereotypes and behaviours.
The Guide for Addressing Ageism in the Workplace, 2024
By the Southern Melbourne Elder Abuse Prevention Network
The Guide for Addressing Ageism in the Workplace is a conversation guide to equip you with responses you can use when encountering ageism in the workplace.
It is based on the tips and principles in the Framing Age Message Guide.
Changing perspectives: testing an ageism intervention, 2023
By the Australian Human Rights Commission
New research shows that a brief, one-off ageism awareness session can be highly effective in shifting people’s attitudes and behaviour that may be sustained over time.
What’s age got to do with it, Australian Human Rights Commission 2021
By the Australian Human Rights Commission
This report identifies stereotypes, attitudes and beliefs about age that prevail in Australia, and captures some of the ways in which people in Australia understand and experience their impacts.
Primary Prevention Framework and Guide
By the Eastern Community Legal Centre
The Framework is a high level document that provides a roadmap to guide efforts to address and prevent the abuse of older people in Melbourne’s East. The Framework seeks to provide consistent messaging and language, and presents a shared framework for action.
National Plan to Respond to the Abuse of Older Australians (Elder Abuse) 2019 – 2023
Endorsed by the Council of Attorneys-General
The National Plan provides a framework for action over the next four years, to respond to abuse of older people. It sets out the commitment of the Australian Government and each of the eight state and territory governments to undertake research, provide services, and develop policy and law reforms to address a complex problem in need of a comprehensive response.
National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Australian Government Summary Report, 2021
By the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Australian Government
As part of the National Plan to Respond to the Abuse of Older Australians, the Attorney-General’s Department commissioned the most extensive empirical examination of elder abuse in Australia to date, the National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study. This report presents the findings of that research program.
Seven Years of Elder Abuse Data in Victoria, Seniors Rights Victoria, 2020
By the National Ageing Research Institute in partnership with Seniors Rights Victoria
This report provides an analysis of advice calls undertaken by Seniors Rights Victoria advocates and lawyers over a seven-year period (July 2012 to June 2019). The analysis considers demographic information and characteristics of clients and the alleged perpetrators of the abuse, as well as well as information about the type of abuse, risk factors, referrals and outcomes.
Primary Prevention of family violence among older people living in Victoria, Respect Victoria, 2021
By the National Ageing Research Institute for Respect Victoria
This resource details the research undertaken about the drivers of intergenerational family violence among older people, the local strategies developed for prevention, and recommendations for uptake of findings in policy and practice.