COURSE CATEGORY
Substantive Law
Elder abuse and coercive behaviour
Western Australia Customers
Please note this course has not been updated in the last twelve months and does not satisfy the requirements for CPD in WA.
Reviewed on 14 December 2023
This course explores elder abuse and in particular:
- What is elder abuse?
- How prevalent it is?
- The most common types of elder abuse
- Examples of elder abuse particular with financial abuse
- How to be a prudent practitioner
Completion of this course will earn you 1 CPD unit.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Solicitors in general practice, elder law, and wills & estates lawyers.
CPD POINTS
1
TYPE
Video based interactive module
Sue Field
Adjunct Associate Professor, Charles Sturt University
Sue Field is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a Professor at the University of New England. For the past 14 years, Sue taught Elder Law to undergraduate law students at Western Sydney University. Sue was the Lead Investigator with the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre, Director of the Australian Centre for Elder Law Pty Ltd and a Distinguished Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Elder Law. Sue is co-editor of the Elder Law Review, the only refereed elder law journal in Australia. Currently, Sue is working on a co-authored text on elder law for the layperson and co-editing a text on elder law for the legal professionals working in this area. Sue is a member of the NSW Law Society Committee on Elder Law, Capacity and Succession and a member of the Australian Law Reform Commission Advisory Committee for the Inquiry into Elder Abuse.
