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Financial Abuse PSA

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[Open to a husband and wife in a kitchen unpacking groceries.]

Husband: Did you check the propane?

Wife: Yeah.

[The husband reaches into his shirt pocket, pulls out a wad of cash and hands a single bill to his wife. He stuffs the remaining money back into his shirt pocket.]

[The wife looks at the money – confused.]

Wife: What’s this?

Husband: I cashed the cheque. Consider it a monthly allowance.

Wife (surprised): What about the rest of the money?

[The husband pats his shirt’s pocket.]

Husband: I’m holding on to it for safekeeping.

Wife (shocked): But it doesn’t even belong to you.

[Frustrated by her husband’s unwillingness to reason the wife walks away, revealing a sad and forlorn elderly woman sitting in the background.]

[The husband looks over at the elderly woman and says,]

Husband: Hey she’s my mother. I know what’s best for her, alright?!

SUPER: Stop Elder Abuse.

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Verbal Abuse PSA

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[We open to a young boy dressed in his pjs running into a bedroom and sliding underneath a bed.]

[The camera switches to his perspective. We see a pair of men’s dress shoes walk in. A gruff voice begins to yell,]

Father (increasingly angry): Where are you?! What is wrong with you?

[Cut to show the little boy, he’s petrified. The voice continues.]

Father: The food not good enough for you?! You’re nothing but trouble… you hear me!

[Cut back to the shoes leaving.]

Father: You’re useless.

[Pan up to reveal grandmother on bed.]

SUPER: Stop Elder Abuse.

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SUPER:
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1 888-579-2788  
All calls anonymous

Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

Physical Abuse PSA

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[Open to a woman coming home after a long days work. Her young daughter greets her at the door.]

[As they walk into the house the camera remains locked on the front hall, there is a large staircase leading up to the second floor.]

[As the mother and daughter exit into an adjoining living room, we see that the floor is strewn with the child’s toys. Just before the mother and daughter disappear from view the mother trips over some unseen object.]

[As the camera remains locked on the front hall, we hear the events proceed in the other room.]

[The mother begins to yell,]

Mother (furious): That’s it!! That’s the last time I trip over that thing!

SFX: SLAP!

SFX: girl crying

[The crying daughter comes running back into the front hall and up the stairs.]

[The camera begins to move into the adjoining living room. As it does, we see the angry mother standing over an elderly man who is sitting on a couch holding his face in pain. There is a cane lying on the floor.]

Mother: What is it that you do all day?! And pick that thing up!

SUPER: Stop Elder Abuse.

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SUPER:
Victim Support Line
1 888-579-2788  
All calls anonymous

Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.