Monday is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), and there are events happening everywhere.
Elder abuse is a pressing problem even in the best of times, but during the COVID-19 era there’s even more concern, and the problem is that it’s difficult to quantify it.
“The sad reality is, we have no good centralized mechanism for getting a handle on how much elder abuse is out there. Which means we don’t have a really good way to measure what kind of increase there has been,” Dr. Laura Mosqueda, Dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a professor of family medicine and geriatrics, said on the GeriPal podcast released last week. Mosqueda also is Director of the National Center of Elder Abuse, based at USC.
You can take part in the WEAAD webinar from 10-11:30 Pacific. There’s also an elder abuse Twitter chat (#WEAADchat) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. PDT.
Some social media tips:
- Use the WEAAD Virtual Background for online meetings.
- Color for a cause! Print out WEAAD Coloring Posters (A or B) and display it as a window message.
- Apply a WEAAD Frame to your Facebook profile photo or a WEAAD social media banner on Facebook and/or Twitter.
- Use our social media tools with tips on using social media to promote #WEAAD as well as sample posts and shareable graphics in English in Spanish.
- WEAAD Social Media Guide English | Spanish
- WEAAD Lifting Up Voices Action Guide (pg. 11 – sample social media posts)
- Add a message about WEAAD to your e-mail signature. Copy and paste using our example below!
