16. The Minister responsible for Seniors is responsible for combatting maltreatment of seniors and of persons in vulnerable situations by fostering the complementarity and effectiveness of the measures that are taken by the actors from the sectors concerned and that are intended to prevent, detect and combat maltreatment.
For that purpose, the Minister coordinates the establishment, in each health region, of a concerted intervention process concerning maltreatment that takes into account each region’s specific realities, in particular by entering into the Québec-wide framework agreement referred to in section 20.4.
2017, c. 102017, c. 10, s. 16; 2022, c. 62022, c. 6, s. 111.