Advocacy

The Foundation has a long tradition of innovative work in the fields of advocacy for older people. Our current projects build on this expertise to develop innovative programmes that support people to be active, engaged citizens with voices that are heard.

National Advocacy Support Project

Funded through Department of Health Section 64 this three year project is focused on developing support systems to advocacy projects across England. For more information please see the project leaflet or email the National Development Manager Betty Machin .

Dementia Advocacy Project

This project provides specialist advocacy support to  older people with Dementia in North Staffordshire. For more detail on the project click here or contact the project coordinators:
 Rachel Ashworth, Kath Curley or Jane Snape 

The Dementia Advocacy Project has been awarded further funding from the Joint Commissioning Board. This extra funding has enabled the project to recruit a further dementia advocate, resulting in the project having three dementia advocates. The extra funding was partly achieved by the current co-ordinators of the project raising awareness of dementia advocacy, via work with Stoke-on-Trent's dementia clinical reference group. The reference group are developing a dementia pathway and the co-ordinators of the project have highlighted the importance of a dementia advocate role in the pathway. Alongside this work the new National Dementia Strategy is on the agenda both locally and nationally. The successful candidate commenced their
position in June 2010.