Sentences with phrase «older women survivors»

May 11, 2016 — West Coast LEAF — Free webinar on legal issues facing older women survivors of violence in British Columbia

As part of our Older Women's Legal Education Project, West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law are proud to present Roads to Safety, a plain language handbook addressing legal challenges that impact older women survivors of violence.

As part of our Older Women's Legal Education Project, West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law are proud to present Roads to Safety, a plain language handbook addressing legal challenges that impact older women survivors of Read More

West Coast LEAF is proud to announce the release of Roads to Safety, the only legal handbook tailored to the needs of older women survivors of violence in BC.

Not exact matches

The verdict was the first legal victory of the #MeToo movement, considered by many to be a watershed moment for survivors of sexual assault, and the woman responsible was 35 - year - old prosecutor Kristen Gibbons Feden.

They found that using mammography about 260 survivors of childhood lymphoma would need to be invited to have early breast cancer screening to prevent one breast cancer death, which compares favorably to widely endorsed screening programs for average risk women aged 50 or older, which generally require 300 - 1,300 women to be invited to prevent one breast cancer death.

Tamoxifen may not be right for older women You can expect to take any of these drugs once a day for five years — although a 2007 study in the journal Cancer suggests that tamoxifen may be on its way out for breast cancer survivors who've passed menopause: Two multicenter trials found that when women who'd been taking tamoxifen for two or three years switched to an AI, their survival rates significantly improved compared with continuing on with tamoxifen.

As played by Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms and real stunt driver Zoe Bell, these fearless women go beyond the female empowerment of old slasher flicks in which a woman is sole survivor.

The Comfort Woman statue, with bird on shoulder, beside an empty chair symbolizing survivors who are of an old age without having yet witnessed judgement, in Glendale, California.

In an effort to relate to her teenage son and provide him with great role models, she enlists two other strong women, Abbie (Greta Gerwig, who is great as always), a cervical cancer survivor and photographer, and Julie (a best - ever Elle Fanning), his bewitching 17 - year - old «girl next door» crush, to help raise him... even though she's doing just fine on her own.

Want more info on 30 - year - old survivor Margaret Hastings, a beautiful woman who was decades ahead of her time?

Besides the two main characters - a 90 + year old man who, we know early on, has worn an SS uniform and a young woman badly scarred from an accident - we meet the woman's grandmother, a survivor of Auschwitz, a young man working to track down former Nazis, and many characters from the years of the war.

A woman of nearly thirty years old, with a face scored by disappointment, mother to an absent son, a widow without prospect of remarriage, the sole survivor of an unlucky family, heiress to scandal.

The Never List is the story of a survivor — Sarah, a 31 - year - old woman who was kept prisoner for three years by a sadistic kidnapper, along with three other women.

Today, a 65 - year - old couple (man and woman) who invests $ 100,000 in a «joint and survivor» immediate annuity would receive about $ 470 a month as long as either one is alive.

A 78 - year - old survivor of the notorious Magdalen Laundries, is pleading with the Irish Government to accept the findings of a recent report into how compensation claims from women incarcerated in the laundries were handled.

Last week, just days after 17 - year - old Parkland - shooting survivor David Hogg spoke in front of tens of thousands of people at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., Fox News host and adult woman Laura Ingraham mocked the high - school senior for being rejected from multiple colleges.

Like many who read the recent report out of France, I was outraged to learn that an 85 - year - old Holocaust survivor, a woman who'd evaded death at the hands of the Nazis,...

A cross-sectional study was conducted in 214 community - dwelling older stroke survivors (128 men and 86 women), ranging from 60 years to 88 years old.