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Becoming a Senior Advocate – When Life Happens
A little over a month ago, I found myself back in the emergency room with my father-in-law. I am part of the sandwich generation, that age between getting kids out of the nest to start their lives and helping parents in their later years to live their lives with some grace and comfort. Powers of attorney (POA) for health care for my mother and my father-in-law have fallen squarely in my court.
Being an advocate for a senior requires more than making doctor appointments and helping to ensure the senior makes it to the appointment. That is the simple part. Some seniors may not want to press doctors regarding their care because they are afraid they will be punished by not getting the care they need. Doctors may be so busy that they will sometimes miss crucial issues on the charts in front of them or may accept non-committal answers from a senior scared to death of hospitals and ending up in a nursing home and not look deeper for the underlying cause of health issues.
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Advocacy – Making a Difference in Our World
Advocates for those less fortunate than us are considered icons in our society. The late Eunice Kennedy Shriver is a model of a champion for the less fortunate. Inspired by the mental challenges of a sibling, she founded and created a whole new world in the 1960’s for individuals now involved in the Special Olympics.
I got to thinking about this recently.
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Parental ADHD Advocacy
Children diagnosed with ADHD face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. First, an ADHD diagnosis conjures unflattering stigmas. The labels are detestable, but a regular part of an ADHD child’s life. Second, special accommodations in the classroom cause deep resentment in peers and the teachers responsible for implementing the accommodations. Most important, children diagnosed with ADHD rarely have an advocate who looks after their best interests.
ADHD advocacy is a nascent trend in the mental health industry. For years, children struggled without advocacy support while trying to cope in social environments and in the classroom. ADHD clinicians began to heed the call for advocacy, but their role was limited to medical education for parents and education personnel. National ADHD advocacy organizations have been effective in lobbying politicians for ADHD laws, especially in the areas of education and the workplace. National organizations have a macro sphere of influence, not the micro attention to detail that is parental ADHD advocacy.
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