Project Timeline: 2022-2025
Overview:
People of all ages can be bullied. Sheridan Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences member Dr. Kirsten Madsen is working with the Centre for Elder Research, Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario and the Bob Rumball Canadian Centre of Excellence for the Deaf to better understand senior to senior bullying in Ontario, and support the development of best practices and strategies for this diverse population.
What is Bullying?
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.
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.
For Further Information Contact: Dr. Kirsten Madsen, Principal Investigator at kirsten.madsen@
Funder:
This work is funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada College and Community Social Innovation Fund.
Partners:
The Centre for Elder Research, Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario and Bob Rumball Canadian Centre of Excellence for the Deaf
Webinar
Implementing the Seniors’ Anti-Bullying Toolkit in Seniors’ Residences
January 18, 2024
This webinar provided the results from the Seniors Bullying in Ontario Survey, formal feedback from stakeholders, and existing best practices, a Seniors’ Anti-bullying Toolkit was created.
SENIOR ANTI-BULLYING TOOLKIT
Solutions: Everybody’s Business Senior to Senior Anti-Bullying Toolkit
People of all ages can be bullied. The Centre for Elder Research worked with Sheridan Professor Dr. Kirsten Madsen and Elder Abuse Prevention (ON) to better understand bullying between older adults age 55+ in Ontario. Our project aims were to collect data on the prevalence and nature of Senior to Senior bullying in Ontario, and to use this data to create this Toolkit outlining best practices and strategies for older adults and those working with older adults to stop bullying.
The Toolkit is part of a research project titled “Bullying between Older Adults: What is Happening in Ontario”? The research focused on aims to support the development of best practices and strategies for this diverse population of older adults.
Solutions: L’affaire de tout le monde
Les personnes de tout âge peuvent être victimes d’intimidation. Le Centre for Elder Research a collaboré avec la professeure M me Kirsten Madsen du collège Sheridan et l’organisme Prévention de la maltraitance envers les aînés Ontario (PMEAO) pour mieux comprendre la question de l’intimidation entre personnes âgées de plus de 55 ans en Ontario. Ce projet a été financé par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSHC) et visait à soutenir le développement de pratiques exemplaires et de stratégies pour cette population diversifiée. Notre projet cherchait à recueillir des données sur la prévalence et la nature de l’intimidation entre personnes âgées en Ontario, et à ensuite utiliser ces données pour créer la présente boîte à outils et y définir des pratiques exemplaires et des stratégies qui permettront aux aînés et aux personnes qui travaillent auprès d’eux de mettre fin à l’intimidation.
Le Senior Bullying Project a élaboré un sondage et demandé aux personnes âgées à la grandeur de l’Ontario de parler de leur expérience en matière d’intimidation entre personnes âgées. Un total de 683 personnes a répondu au sondage à l’échelle provinciale, apportant de précieuses perspectives en matière d’intimidation au sein de la population âgée. Une fois que les résultats du sondage ont été analysés et que les thèmes ont été identifiés, l’équipe a tenu quatre groupes de réflexion dans les quatre villes suivantes de l’Ontario : Oakville, Ottawa, London et Peterborough. L’objectif de ces groupes de réflexion était de mobiliser les intervenants et les aînés touchés par le problème d’intimidation au sein de la population âgée. Les intervenants ont pu consulter les résultats du sondage et ils ont généré des idées pouvant servir dans un contexte d’intervention et de prévention contre les incidents d’intimidation auprès des personnes âgées au moyen d’activités et d’exercices variés effectués au fil de la journée.
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This toolkit is modular, and includes strategies and activities to prevent and address bullying behaviours and create a positive environment. Currently, this Toolkit is being implemented in seniors’ residences. Together with the residents and staff at these sites, many lessons are being learned.
This webinar presented on the strategies being implemented from the Seniors’ Anti-bullying Toolkit , and discussed how they are being modified and built upon to reduce bullying behaviours.