Legal forum offers advice for seniors A FREE forum for seniors this month will discuss important issues they face during their lifetime, such as planning for retirement and decision-making as they age. The Legal Matters and Ageing Forum is being run by Seniors Rights Victoria and Peninsula Advisory Committee for Elders. It is being sponsored by the Mornington Peninsula Shire and hosted by Peninsula Community Legal Centre. The forum will be held at the Safety Beach Community Centre, 185 Marine Drive, Safety Beach, 10.30am1pm, Tuesday 16 October. Morning tea will be provided. Bookings are essential. Seniors will learn about some of the most common legal issues affecting older people, such as knowing what to look out for in aged care and retirement village contracts, and recent changes in the law on medical decision-making in Victoria. Keynote speaker John Corcoran, AM, is a principal and former chairman of Russell Kennedy Lawyers, a prominent Australian law firm which advises leading providers of aged care and retirement living. His talk will give seniors a better understanding of retirement village and aged care living and the contracts offered. Speakers from PCLC and Seniors Rights Victoria will talk about elder abuse, an issue in the news and the subject of a Royal Commission
over poor standards of care in some aged-care facilities, as well as recent changes to medical decision-making laws in Victoria. A question and answer session with the panel of experts will follow. Peninsula Advisory Committee for Elders is a not-for-profit organisation that provides free advice on most legal issues, with ongoing assistance available for clients experiencing disadvantage. The centre’s head office is in Frankston, with branches also at Frankston North, Rosebud and elsewhere, as well as visiting services at Chelsea and Hastings. Seniors Rights Victoria provides information on issues such as elder abuse and how to safeguard the rights, dignity and independence of older people. Anyone experiencing elder abuse should contact the free Helpline: 1300 368 821 To register for the forum, or call Peninsula Community Legal Centre 9783 3600, email pclc@pclc.org.au, go to pclclegalmattersforum.eventbrite.com.au or visit pclc.org.au
Food for All meet MEMBERS of the public are invited to attend this year’s annual meeting of the Southern Peninsula Food for All. It will be held at All Saints’ Anglican Church Hall, 2.30pm, Wednesday 10 October. The hall is at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pt Nepean Road, Rosebud.
PETER Caty’s composite photograph, Indifference, is one of the exhibits in the Drawing on Nature at Frankston Arts Centre.
The nature of student art EMERGING artists at Chisholm Institute, Frankston are showing off their talents and their works by mounting an exhibition at Frankston Arts Centre. The exhibition, called Drawing on Nature, features the work of eight artists who are completing their Ad-
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