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Advocacy and ageing
Author(s) -
Sorensen Harry,
Black Barbara
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2001.tb00396.x
Subject(s) - pleading , rest (music) , service (business) , law , sociology , political science , psychology , public relations , medicine , business , marketing , cardiology
Advocacy sounds like a complex and esoteric process, and 1 am not sure if the word means much to the lay person. However, in reality it is likely that each one of us has acted as an advocate in some sense. Simply defined, advocacy is ‘an act of pleading for, supporting or recommending’ (The Macquarie Dictionary, 1988, p. 70) the cause of another person. In general terms, an advocate is someone who ‘pleads a case’, who takes the side of another person or group of people and represents their interests. Advocacy is essentially the very ordinary process of standing up for the rights of others who are being unfairly treated (Parsons, 1994). Lawyers, unions and human service workers all act as advocates in the course of their work, as do the rest of us in everyday life.