Advocacy and aging policy: the prognosis

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Significant anniversaries or major demographic thresholds, a new opportunity to achieve change in policy, a new threat to popular and effective existing policies are some of the events that will spark renewed advocacy activities in the interest of older people in the years and decades ahead. Good advocacy requires two other factors besides timing such as the need for good advocates who know what to do and when to do it and a need for good champions ready to respond to the advocacy.

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The circumscribed sometimes-advocacy of the case-manager and the care provider

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Advocacy is considered as a core function of social work practice and case advocacy is a term often used in the social service literature. Case advocacy is defined as partisan intervention on behalf of an individual client or identified client group with one or more secondary institutions to secure or enhance a needed service, resource or entitlement.

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Advocacy and policy success in aging

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The principal factor behind the transformation in advocacy for the aged is the secondary effect of the policies that earlier efforts had put in place. The recent policies for the elderly has empowered older people to a degree where they serve increasingly as their own program advocates and can act through formal organizations.

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