#WalkingWithHer - Solidarity with Older Women Who Were Sexually Assaulted

The #WalkWithHer Campaign was launched in March 2020 to show solidarity with older women who are sexually assaulted.

The Campaign raises awareness of the following facts:

1. Older women who report sexual assault are often discredited

2. Women with dementia are targeted by perpetrators who understand the women will not be believed

3. There were over 700 reports of sexual assault in residential aged care in the past year

4. Sexual assault was not addressed in the interim report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care

5. In additional to sexual assault in residential aged care - older women are sexually assaulted in their own homes by intimate partners, other family members and strangers

6. Too many service providers believe that responding to sexual assault is not their responsibility

7. Older women (and their advocates) report few people are listening

8. The lives of older women who are sexually assaulted can be transformed by those who listen.

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