Seniors Rights Service advocacy funding guaranteed for three years
Seniors Rights Service — as part of the peak national body Older Persons Advocacy Network (OPAN) — has secured funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health that allows us to continue delivering and improving services under the National Aged Care Advocacy Program (NACAP). OPAN has been awarded $25.7million to deliver aged care advocacy services across Australia through its nine participating organisations over the next three years under NACAP’s national framework.
With over twenty-five years of working to improve the lives of older Australians, this secured three-year funding means Seniors Rights Service will be able to increase and develop its advocacy and education services in regional, rural and remote NSW while providing more services in metropolitan locations. In 2016 Seniors Rights Service provided over 3,837 advocacy services to older people in aged-care and our education and outreach efforts engaged with over 24,000 people last year.
Over 9,000 older people across Australia benefited from aged-care advocacy services provided by the OPAN organisations across the country. This new national framework will provide OPAN organisations with an opportunity to increase individual aged-care advocacy services as well as new innovative programs that will raise awareness of aged-care advocacy across the nation.
Seniors Rights Service is excited to be a key organisation delivering aged-care advocacy and education services to those in NSW. We look forward to implementing these services as part of the OPAN arrangement.
