Did you know
That every year June 15 is marked as the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day?
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day has been marked every year on June 15 since 2006 at the initiative of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.
According to data from the World Health Organization every sixth person over the age of 60 has experienced some form of abuse, and that’s why the United Nations declared June 15 as the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
Forms of elder abuse can be divided into the following categories:
psychological – insults, accusations, coercion, ignoring, watching from above;
physical – hitting, pinching, beating, threats of violence and death;
sexual – rape, attempted rape, inappropriate touching and inadequate lascivious language;
financial – exploiting for financial gain, for example taking money without permission or preventing access to income or property;
neglect – withholding food or giving inadequate food, abandonment, denial of hygienic actions or clean clothes, exposure to social isolation;
structural – systemic abuse in which society denies value to older men and women.
Violence against the elderly worldwide represents a serious public health and social problem, both in developed and underdeveloped societies. Victims of violence can be people of both sexes, of different ages, education, culture, ethnicity, economic status, different health conditions and religious beliefs.
Let’s close the generation gap – let our differences unite us, not divide us.
Let’s choose love, support and tolerance instead of violence.
Let’s do something nice today for our grandmother, our grandfather; our elderly parents, relatives, neighbors or any elderly person we meet – known or unknown. Let’s visit them, call them, support them, help them. It starts with us!
Our association “Safe Step” understands the importance of this date, and decided to mark it. Therefore, today our members held a street action in the city center of Bijeljina, as well as in the Tombak settlement, with the aim of raising public awareness of the problem of violence against the elderly in our society.
The street action was held as part of the project marking important dates concerning human rights, which is financially supported by the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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