Seniors Law - a Health Justice Partnership

The Seniors Law Health Justice Partnership was established by Justice Connect Seniors Law and cohealth to provide assistance to older people experiencing elder abuse and other legal issues. The service operates as an embedded model, with a lawyer based in the community health centre and acting as a member of a number of health teams where elder abuse is likely to be identified. AIPCA has been working with this Health Justice Partnership from the funding application stage and was involved at all stages—supporting monitoring and evaluation, developing the evaluation and monitoring framework, developing tools to be used for data collection from health professionals, pro bono lawyers, and clients, data collection, data analysis and report writing. The HJP is seeking further funding for the service to operate beyond 2018. Results from the evaluation will be reported in early 2018.

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View the first year report

Team members (include internal/external): Virginia Lewis, Vanessa White