AM Meets With Age Concern Officer

CARL SARGEANT AM TO MEET AGE CONCERN TO DISCUSS ELDER ABUSE
Carl Sargeant, AM for Alyn and Deeside, is to have one of his regular meetings with Louise Hughes, Age Concern’s North Wales Project Officer with responsibility for tackling Elder Abuse (Friday 17th October 2008).
The Age Concern Elder Abuse project is funded by Comic Relief, and has been designed in response to the need to develop advocacy work in Wales as a key means of tackling the abuse of older people and to the need to develop policy and practice in this area. The project represents a major opportunity to make a key and pioneering contribution to work in the field of tackling elder abuse.
Elder abuse can take many forms – it can be financial or material, emotional or psychological. It can be physical or sexual, or can take the form of neglect.
Mr Sargeant said: “I welcome the opportunity to meet again with Age Concern and to discuss how we as politicians in the National Assembly for Wales can help further deliver the campaign objectives, and to look at how the project is progressing in Wales.“We need to increase the general public awareness of elder abuse, and ensure that people develop a complete zero tolerance for it.“It is also important that we increase awareness and understanding of the value of advocacy in the protection and empowerment of older people.”