Endnotes 1 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Older People and the Law (2007) rec 16 and [3.44] <https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/ house_of_representatives_committees?url=laca/olderpeople/report.htm>; Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Powers of Attorney (Final Report, Parliamentary Paper No 352, August 2010) xliv and 35-37 <https://www. parliament.vic.gov.au/4a093d/contentassets/fb73e25b64d7452f8a9649a34b16ee58/report_24-08-2010.pdf>; Legislative Council General Purpose Standing Committee No 2, Parliament of New South Wales, Elder Abuse in New South Wales (Report No 44, June 2016) [6.83-6.89], [6.104] and [6.106] <https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/inquiries/2387/Report%20 44%20-%20Elder%20abuse%20in%20New%20South%20Wales.pdf>; Australian Law Reform Commission, Elder Abuse - A National Legal Response (Final Report 131, May 2017) rec 5-3 <https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/elder-abuse-a-nationallegal-response-alrc-report-131/>; South Australian Law Reform Institute, Valuable Instrument or the Single Most Abused Legal Document of our Judicial System? A Review of the Role and Operation of Enduring Powers of Attorney in South Australia (Report 15, December 2020) 17 <https://law.adelaide.edu.au/ua/media/1572/POA%20Report%20FINAL%20-%2012%20Jan%20 2021.pdf> and Attorney-General’s Department (Cth), National Register of Enduring Powers of Attorney (Public Consultation Paper, April 2021) 3 <https://www.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/publications/national-register-epoa-public-consultationpaper-and-submission-template>. 2 Attorney-General’s Department, Achieving Greater Consistency in Laws for Financial Enduring Powers of Attorney (Consultation Paper, September 2023) 3-4 <https://consultations.ag.gov.au/families-and-marriage/epoa/user_uploads/epoaconsultation-paper.pdf>. 3 Lixia Qu et al, ‘National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Final Report’ (Research Report, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2021) 4 and 108-109 <https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/2021_national_elder_abuse_prevalence_ study_final_report_0.pdf>; Australian Law Reform Commission, Elder Abuse - A National Legal Response (Final Report 131, May 2017) 159-160 <https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/elder-abuse-a-national-legal-response-alrc-report-131/>. 4 Lixia Qu et al, ‘National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Final Report’ (Research Report, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2021) 2 and 100 <https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/2021_national_elder_abuse_prevalence_ study_final_report_0.pdf>. Data from the study showed adult children were most likely to commit financial abuse, with the most common form of financial abuse being the pressuring of an older person into giving or loaning money, possessions or property. This was followed by behaviour amounting to theft (taking money or possessions without permission) and failing to provide financial contributions or assistance to an older person (rent, food, aged care or home service fees) as previously agreed (see 36). 5 Law Reform Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Inquiry into Powers of Attorney (Final Report, Parliamentary Paper No 352, August 2010) 20 <https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/4a093d/contentassets/fb73e25b64d7452f8a9649a34b16ee58/ report_24-08-2010.pdf> and Attorney General’s Department, Australian Government, Enhancing protections relating to the use of Enduring Power of Attorney Instruments (Consultation Regulation Impact Statement, February 2020) 9, 10 and 31 <https:// oia.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/posts/2020/06/consultation_ris_-_enhancing-protections-relating-use-enduring-power-ofattorney-instruments_-_pdf.pdf>. 6 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Older People and the Law (2007) [3.12] <https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_ representatives_committees?url=laca/olderpeople/report.htm>; South Australian Law Reform Institute, Valuable Instrument or the Single Most Abused Legal Document of our Judicial System? A Review of the Role and Operation of Enduring Powers of Attorney in South Australia (Report 15, December 2020) [2.2.33] <https://law.adelaide.edu.au/ua/media/1572/POA%20 Report%20FINAL%20-%2012%20Jan%202021.pdf>. 7 Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD)’, Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia (Web Page, 27 April 2023) <https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-andcommunities/socio-economic-indexes-areas-seifa-australia/latest-release#index-of-relative-socio-economic-advantage-anddisadvantage-irsad->. 8 Pamela Grimm, ‘Social desirability bias’ in Jagdish Sheth and Naresh Malhotra (eds), Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing (John Wiley & Sons, 2010) wiem02057. 9 Lixia Qu et al, ‘National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Final Report’ (Research Report, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2021) 73-74 <https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/2021_national_elder_abuse_prevalence_study_ final_report_0.pdf>. 10 Lixia Qu et al, ‘National Elder Abuse Prevalence Study: Final Report’ (Research Report, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2021) 73-74 <https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/2021_national_elder_abuse_prevalence_study_ final_report_0.pdf> and Jennifer E Storey, ‘Risk factors for elder abuse and neglect: A review of the literature’ (2020) 50 Aggression and Violent Behaviour <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2019.101339>. 11 Australian Guardianship and Administration Council, You Decide Who Decides (October 2019) <https://www.agac.org.au/ assets/documents/Other-Publications/You-Decide-Who-Decides.pdf>. 12 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ‘Older Australians Demographic profile’ (Web Page, 2 July 2024) <https://www. aihw.gov.au/reports/older-people/older-australians/contents/demographic-profile>. 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