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 occurred.
• Recognize how Canada’s legal framework differs from the legal framework in the United States, and why legal rights issues inform policy development in this area.
• Demonstrate knowledge about recent research on elder abuse response within the Canadian legal context.
• Recognize how the findings from recent research can guide the development of more effective laws and policies.

Speaker Bio:

Joan Braun, LLB, MSW, LLB, PhD 

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.