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Legal Advocacy To Improve Care For Older Adults With Complex Needs

Author/s: 
Hooper, Sarah, Parekh, Ami, Fabiny, Anne, Teitelbaum, Joel

Legal advocacy is a recognized strategy to address social factors that influence the health of populations with complex care needs. Such advocacy can improve housing stability, increase access to public benefits that support a host of social needs, assure that medical and financial proxy decision makers are in place, and reduce psychosocial distress. 

Keywords 
Elderly care elder abuse social workers home care dementia medicare elderly aged

Medical-Legal Partnership

Author/s: 
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc.

In Oklahoma, 1 in 5 people live in poverty and also have at least one health-harming civil legal need. Creating a system to screen for these legal needs will allow us to address problems not otherwise attended to, reducing patient stressors and saving health care partner’s money in terms of reducing illness, increasing
adjustment rate payments and reimbursement potential. The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) model integrates civil legal aid attorneys in health care teams to address health-harming legal needs for low-income populations.

Keywords 
poverty medicare medicaid legal services
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