Alarming numbers: Over 60-year-olds particularly at risk-press conference on March 5!

Alarming numbers: Over 60-year-olds particularly at risk-press conference on March 5!

Am Heumarkt 35-37, 1030 Wien, Österreich - The disturbing reality of domestic violence against older women is becoming increasingly clear. In 2024, 27 women were murdered by men from their immediate vicinity in Austria, with over 50 % of these victims over 60 years old. These alarming numbers also make a lightly at risk of the special danger of older women and the fact that they often do not find the necessary support. So the Austrian news agency APA-OTS that was less than 8 % of the callers over 60 years old and only about 2 % in the autonomous women's homes in this age group Residents can be found. There is an acute need for action to provide these women the help they urgently need.

In order to draw attention to the situation, the Association of Autonomous Austrian women's shelters invites you to a press conference in the Hotel at the concert hall in Vienna on March 5, 2025. The event, in which important personalities from the field of women's counseling and protection, should help to develop strategies to support older women and to raise awareness in society. Maja Markanović-Riedl, managing director of the association, and other representatives from the women's aid movement emphasize the need to take concrete measures to raise awareness of the general population. The context is similar to that of the women's house initiatives founded in 1990 in the new federal states of Germany, where the topics of violence against women have long been taboo and neglected, as the Autonomous women's shelters emphasize.