{"id":13994,"date":"2025-04-11t11:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11t15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=13994"},"modified":"2025-05-16t14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16t18:20:31","slug":"cerah-speaker-series-elder-abuse-and-the-law-updates-and-perspectives-on-canadian-laws-policies-and-response","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/event\/cerah-speaker-series-elder-abuse-and-the-law-updates-and-perspectives-on-canadian-laws-policies-and-response\/","title":{"rendered":"cerah speaker series &#8211; elder abuse and the law: updates and perspectives on canadian laws, policies and response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-13997\" src=\"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-300x164.png\" alt=\"//m.hsbcwebinars.com/cerah/wp-json/wp/v2/tribe_events/\" width=\"913\" height=\"499\" data-warning=\"missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-1536x840.png 1536w, https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/june-2025-speaker-series-1-2048x1121.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/div>\n<h1>session info:<\/h1>\n<h4>participants will be able to:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>understand legal remedies that can be used to prevent situations of elder abuse and neglect or to intervene when abuse and neglect has occurred.<\/li>\n<li>recognize how canada\u2019s legal framework differs from the legal framework in the united states, and why legal rights issues inform policy development in this area.<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate knowledge about recent research on elder abuse response within the canadian legal context.<\/li>\n<li>recognize how the findings from recent research can guide the development of more effective laws and policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>speaker bio:<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>joan braun, llb, msw, llb, phd\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joan is a professor at the bora laskin faculty of law in thunder bay ontario, where she teaches criminal law, administrative law, elder law and alternate dispute resolution. her research examines the real-world impact of laws and policies on the older adult population. it focuses on three areas of interest: legal and policy responses to elder abuse, human rights perspectives on mental incapacity and accommodation of cognitive disabilities in alternate dispute resolution processes. currently she is a co-investigator on a sshrc funded project examining mental capacity and capacity assessment in the context of abuse, neglect and self-neglect.<\/p>\n<h1>register for this free webinar by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/lakeheadu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/zw1fntn5ssi3qbgjevbbkq\">here<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>session info: participants will be able to: understand legal remedies that can be used to prevent situations of elder abuse and neglect or to intervene when abuse and neglect has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[15],"class_list":["post-13994","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-speaker-series","cat_speaker-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13994","targethints":{"allow":["get"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14173,"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13994\/revisions\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13994"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerah.lakeheadu.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}