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AAG's Elder Abuse Special Interest Group Presents:

Addressing the call for reparations
for harm experienced in aged care

We are on the eve of a new Aged Care Act. In this webinar, we consider whether we have acknowledged, learned from and redressed the harms to people in aged care under the previous legislation. How is transformative change possible, if systemic injustice remains unaddressed? And what truth-telling and reparations do people living with dementia and their care partners want?

This webinar will share report findings published by Linda Steele and Kate Swaffer on the need for reparations, as well as changes to policy and practice around access to justice, for those living with dementia who have experienced harm in residential care.

In their report, Reparations for harm to people living with dementia in residential aged care, the authors found that people living with dementia in aged care, as well as care partners and family members, encounter barriers to reporting harm to the police, and difficulty accessing justice through complaint systems and the courts.

The researchers developed a set of principles to guide design and operation of reparations for people living with dementia. These principles were informed by empirical research with people living with dementia, care partners, advocates and lawyers.

• Learn more about the scale of instances of violence, abuse and neglect in residential aged care
  
• Consider a reparations-based approach to address these injustices
  
• Hear from lived experience speakers

Hear from our speakers:

Kate Swaffer
PHD candidate, School of Justice and society
University of South Australia
Kate Swaffer is a highly published author and poet, an international speaker, independent researcher, and an award-winning campaigner for the rights of people with dementia and older persons globally, for dementia as a disability, and for rehabilitation for all people with dementia. She is a current PhD candidate at the University of South Australia, and has a Master of Science in Dementia Care, a Bachelor of Psychology, a Bachelor of Arts in professional and creative writing, a graduate Diploma in grief counselling, and is a retired chef and retired nurse. Her doctoral studies seek to discover why people with dementia are denied their most basic of human rights; critically, why they are still being denied the knowledge that dementia causes disabilities, and access to rehabilitation, at the time of diagnosis.

Associate Professor Linda Steele
Faculty of Law
University of Technology Sydney
Linda Steele is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is a socio-legal scholar leading a program of research ‘Truth Justice Repair’ through which she explores reckoning with and redressing violence, institutionalisation and segregation experienced by people with disability, including people living with dementia. Linda is author of Disability, Criminal Justice and Law (2020, Routledge).

Lyn Rogers
Member, Dementia Alliance International
Lyn Rogers lives in a residential care facility in Victoria in Australia and is a member of Dementia Alliance International. Lyn is an active campaigner for the rights of everyone, especially people diagnosed with dementia and older persons globally and many of their basic human rights are frequently violated. Lyn has primary progressive aphasia, a rare form of dementia.   

Please note: For anyone living with a diagnosis of dementia, or requiring financial support,
attendance is complimentary. Use the discount code EASIG23 at checkout.