look at the AARP website listed in your resources. How will you advocate for retired persons with the upcoming changes in health care?
Ans) The goal of advocacy is to promote change – changes in
attitudes, policies and actions.
- Olderpeople’s issues have been a low priority for government and
non-government bodies
at a time when older people have become increasingly marginalised
from their families,
communities, and the development process for a variety of
reasons.
- This means that advocacy and awareness-raising with older people needs to promote changes to a variety kiof audiences – the public, service providers, NGOs, government, and even older people themselves.
- The experience of older people and models of good age care
practice are the basis for raising awareness about the needs and
circumstances of older people.
- Changes in policy will hopefully lead to allocation of resources
for services, programmes or benefi tys for older people, or to the
inclusion of older people in existing programmes.
However, this is not necessarily the case, particularly in
countries where material and fi nancial
resources are in short supply. Rather, policy changes might refl
ect an intent on the part of
policy makers and other decision makers to improve the services
offered to older people,
include older people in existing services, or develop new services
for older people. Some
governments may use these policies to attract funding from
international donors, and some
NGOs and governments may improve access to existing resources by
older people.
This means that advocacy and infl uencing policy are long term
processes, and advocacy and
- Awareness raising must continue even after a policy is
developed.
Some examples of goals of advocacy with older people:
Raise the priority of ageing issues for government, NGO and
international bodies.
Ensure inclusion of older people in the mainstream activities of
communities,
government and non-government organisations.
Develop strong and effective older peoples’ organisations which
facilitate their
empowerment and the development of a powerful, co-ordinated voice
for older people’s
issues.
Develop and disseminate information and images of older people that
raise awareness
of their capacities and contributions, as a means of challenging
stereotypes of older
people as disabled, unproductive and dependant.
Increase awareness and understanding of ageing issues and the
ageing process across
the community, and in particular with service providers, as a means
of reducing
misunderstanding and misconceiv
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