Project Timeline: Completed
Overview
People of all ages can be bullied. The Senior Bullying Project is aimed to support the development of best practices and strategies for older adults, front-line staff, and agencies to use in order to prevent and respond to bullying behaviours between older adults.
Bullying is sometimes called harassment and happens when someone hurts, intimidates or scares a peer consciously or unconsciously. When someone is being bullied they often have a hard time defending themselves. Bullying is usually not a one-time event. It can happen over and over again.
The Senior Bullying Project received over 650 surveys that provide valuable insight to what is happening across the province regarding peer to peer bullying in the older adult community. The project team also hosted four ThinkTanks across Ontario in 2019 in Oakville, Ottawa, London, and Peterborough that included professionals who work with older adults in various sectors and older adults themselves. The data and information from these sessions helped develop the Solutions: Everybody’s Business Senior to Senior Anti-Bullying Toolkit.
Funder
The three year project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Partners
The Centre for Elder Research, Sheridan faculty member Dr. Kirsten Madsen and Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario.
Outcomes/Resources
English Toolkit: Solutions: Everybody’s Business Senior to Senior Anti-Bullying Toolkit
French Toolkit: Solutions : L’affaire de tout le monde Boîte à outils contre l’intimidation des aînés par leurs pairs
Fact Sheet:
English Fact Sheet: Older Adults and Bullying
French Fact Sheet: Les Personnes ÂGÉES et L’intimidation
Research Result Highlights
Results from the Seniors Bullying in Ontario Survey show that bullying between older adults is a serious issue:
- 57% participants reported being bullied
- 56% reported to have engaged in bullying behaviours
- 55% reported witnessing bullying within the last 4 months
- 70% of respondents reporting that being bullied was upsetting or extremely upsetting.
Webinars
March 13, 2020
Senior to Senior Bullying Project: Toolkit Launch
Presenters: Kirsten Madsen, PhD, Sheridan College, Liza Franses, BA (Hons.), Dip., Sheridan College, Katrina Behnke, Interaction Designer, Liza Franses, Research Manager, Emily Ayenew, Dip., Sheridan College
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November 19, 2018
Seniors Bullying in Ontario, The Sheridan Centre for Elder Research Preliminary Research Data
Presenters: Kirsten Madsen, PhD, Sheridan College, Liza Franses, BA (Hons.), Dip., Sheridan College
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June 4, 2018
Senior Bullying: What is Happening in Ontario
Presenters: Kirsten Madsen, PhD, The Centre for Elder Research at Sheridan College, Patricia Spadafora, MSW, Kaleidoscope Consulting
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