Summary:
This video examines the impact of various forms of abuse against older women, including abuse within intimate relationships and abuse by adult children. It features women from various backgrounds with a range of social values, experiences, health concerns and disabilities. Designed to go with Silent & Invisible: What’s age got to do with it?: A handbook for service providers on working with abused older women in British Columbia and Yukon and part of the Older Women project.
Study guide written by Judith Blackwell. Produced for the BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses by the May Street Group Film, Video and Animation Ltd. ; written and edited by Hilary Pryor. Copyright: BC Society of Transition Houses (previously BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses, 2002.
Funded by the National Crime Prevention Centre Partnership Program.