Social work advocacy in aging is marked by enduring issues that call for contemporary skills and technology. Economic pressures on our clients and our agencies have resulted in an unbroken focus on access, quality, rights, and vulnerability. Effective advocacy with and on behalf of increasingly diverse elderly clients will require that we understand and confront the systems that shape our practice.
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