Welcome to INPEA's World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) Press Kit
The materials listed below may be used for the following purposes:
To raise awareness about World Elder Abuse Awareness Day with your local media, colleagues and other contacts,
To help you plan and implement your own World Day Elder Abuse Awareness Day activities, and
To register your World Awareness Day activities with INPEA so that they may be listed on the INPEA World Awareness Day Calendar of Events.
Resource"Tool Kit" to Raise World Awareness on Adult Abuse
This Community Resource Tool Kit is created to help individuals, organizations and communities throughout the world plan for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, to be held on June 15 of each year. The first WEAAD was launched on June 15, 2006.
The key objective of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is to raise awareness of elder abuse (which encompasses neglect and mal- or mistreatment) throughout the world.
Use this poster to encourage your community to wear something "purple" on June 15, in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). Localize the poster by adding your organization's information at the bottom.
Use this poster to announce any activities you are planning in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. You can add your local organization's information at the bottom.
We wish to thank all of you who joined WHO, INPEA and our World Day
Partners as we launched "The First World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" on
June 15, 2006 at UN Headquarters, New York.
WEAAD 2006 Documents available in Archives 2006. Attention! The
WEAAD 2006 follow up Survey conducted by INPEA's National
Representative of Sweden, Christen Erlingsson has been released. The
initial results can be found in the January 2007 Bulletin.
