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Call the Aged Care Advocacy Line, our national team of advocates is available Monday to Friday 8am–8pm and Saturday 10am-4pm 

How to be an Everyday Advocate

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Learn how to advocate for older people’s rights and empowering them to self-advocate!

Advocacy is the process of supporting someone to understand and exercise their rights and have their voice heard on the issues that are important to them.

By empowering older people to self-advocate, they are better able to exercise their rights in aged care.

Everyone has the potential to become an everyday advocate for and with older people.

In this webinar, our panel of experts discuss the role of aged care advocacy in championing older people’s rights, empowering older people to self-advocate, and what we can do to become everyday advocates in the communities where we live.

This webinar covers:

  • What is aged care advocacy?
  • The role advocacy plays in supporting older people’s rights.
  • The characteristics of a good advocate.
  • Empowering older people to self-advocate.
  • Information required to become an everyday advocate.

Meet the panel:

  • Eva Jakab-Rivera, Advocate, ADA Australia
  • Maria Berry, Advocate, Community Development Officer, Older Persons Advocacy Network
  • Lynda Henderson, Member, Older Persons Advocacy Network Reference Group Member
  • Farid Silwanis, Volunteer, Community Visitors Scheme
  • Pay Joyce, Advocacy Manager, Seniors Rights Service

Webinar resources