Senior Academy
Goals: describe the main goals of the good practice | - seminars for elderly, where they are educated about good practice how to prevent criminal offences - specifically targeted for elderly and criminal offences they could face as victims - they centred on specific crimes, they speak about abuse too (from relatives and also from foreign persons) - in senior academy – there are focused on lifelong learning and once a year the absolvent’s are invited for new seminars to continue in learning.
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Target Group: describe on which group the good practice is targeted (for instance, older people themselves, care providers, family etc.) | - older people - potential victims of crime |
Approach: describe the way in which the good practice is implemented. | - they motivate elderly people to come by offering some kind of small present - usually connected with instructions of protection, protecting measures, leaflets, stamps to remind what to do and so on. - they speak publicly to target group about their specific vulnerability to some kind of crime and they offer help - they speak about protection – how to protect themselves, where to find help, what to do in the case when some attempt of crime happened to them - they speak about the nature of those crimes – they use examples to rise awareness about the topic and to make elderly familiar with the topic – to get known that it is not normal, it could be prosecuted |
Who implements this good practice? Mention, if relevant, the organisation or persons who do the work. | Police of Prague with cooperation of Magistrate of Prague, Police of Brno starts to provide similar seminars too |
What material is available on this good practice (description, website etc.) | http://www.mppraha.cz/prevence/seniori/ - they have also leaflets in Brail script, leaflets for elderly how to cope with the problem, leaflets of help-lines. http://www.mppraha.cz/prevence/seniori/senior-akademie.htm - the absolvents of senior academy receives certificate about their knowledge - Police of Brno have specific part of their webpages dedicated to this problematic and this seminars |
How widely is this good practice used in your country? | As known mainly regionally: they provide seminars on request in Prague, but similar programs are widespread in Czech republic |
What are the results, outcomes, experiences with this good practice? Please mention the source(s). | Police believe that this prevention action will help to reduce the number of the crimes committed and when committed they provide solutions. Usually on the seminars there is place to answer the question and sometimes that is the way how to start to help to elderly who suffer from some kind of crime.
Some other police undertake their prevention system and provides similar seminars. For example police in Jirkov – police provide the seminar and offered the alarm system for elderly people. http://www.policie.cz/clanek/prednaska-pro-jirkovske-seniory.aspx |
Are there effect studies? Please mention the source(s) if the answer is ‘yes’. | No |
What are the success factors? | Institution who provides services has good credit – police is well perceived by seniors
Elderly receives knowledge about various possibilities how to prevent the crimes. They also are more familiar with crimes which are not spoken about publicly: it means also elder abuse. They get known about the forms of elder abuse, about the perpetrators and about the way how to combat it – where to find help and what to do. When speaking publicly to target group, it is best way to let them informed about the topic and about the ways how to help. |