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- Aged Rights Advocacy Service is known as ARAS
- ARAS was launched in March 1990
- ARAS is the South Australian component of a national advocacy program - the Residential Aged Care Advocacy Services Program (RACASP)
- The RACASP was funded by the Commonwealth government following the introduction of the Consumer Rights initiatives in 1989
- Advocacy agencies were mandated initially to assist older people living in nursing homes and hostels, or their representatives to exercise their rights
- Advocacy agencies were introduced following research indicating the vulnerable position of older people in residential facilities, heightened by their frequent physical or mental frailty.
- ARAS is auspiced by the Council of Pensioners and Retired Persons Association, and Council on the Ageing S.A.
- ARAS received funding in 1991 from the HACC program to provide systems advocacy
- ARAS expanded with further HACC program funding in 1994 to provide advocacy assistance to older people using HACC funded services and their carers.
- In 1997 ARAS incorporated the Abuse Prevention Program with funding from the HACC Program and OFTA. It focuses on using the advocacy model to assist older people to minimise or stop the abuse. www.elderabuse.org.au
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