2025 Webinar Series

 

Promoting Advocacy for the Elderly 

 

According to the Government of Canada, abuse affects between 4 and 10% of older adults in Canada. Since only an estimated one in five incidents of elder abuse comes to the attention of those who can help, these figures are likely an underestimate. Older adults may suffer harm, including: physical abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, and neglect.

Medical, legal, and spiritual care professionals are often in a unique position to be able to recognize the signs of abuse and neglect so to be able to intervene. But what are these signs, and how can the intervention be judicious and effective?

Joining us to discuss all of this is Graham Webb. His long experience in advocacy for the elderly makes him a leading expert and this webinar will be an excellent opportunity for you to raise cases and questions in conversation with him.

 

Thursday, February 20th, 2025

@ 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ET

About Our Speaker

  

 

Graham Webb, Executive Director at Advocacy Centre for the Elderly

 

Graham Webb, LL.B., LL.M., is a lawyer called to the Ontario bar in 1985. He is the Executive Director of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, a Toronto, Ontario legal-aid clinic, where he was a Staff Litigation Lawyer from 1995-2016. He has carried civil, criminal and administrative litigation at all levels of courts and tribunals, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a co-author of Long-Term Care Facilities in Ontario: The Advocate’s Manual, and a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Social Policy.
He has won an award from Ryerson University for excellence in teaching gerontology.

He is a past Chair of the National Elder Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, and a former executive member of the Ontario Bar Association Elder Law Section.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies.