. What are you? By Regina Mayolo It was once described to me that an advocate is someone to works to improve or change something that impacts others. An activist on the other hand is someone who is directly impacted by the issue in question. This is an...
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. What are you? By Regina Mayolo It was once described to me that an advocate is someone to works to improve or change something that impacts others. An activist on the other hand is someone who is directly impacted by the issue in question. This is an important distinction, especially in our society today, as we experience the well-documented "senior tsunami" and the dramatic aging of our population. As we look around at our community leaders and elected officials, what we see are people who are aging, as are their constituents. This applies to health care, community services, housing, transportation, environmental design and dozens of other issues. No longer are they making decisions just for other people - now they are making decisions that impact themselves as well as others. Now, it's personal. And if they don't think so, it's up to us to point this out to them. The concept also applies to us. We often think that something is only relevant to our parents or our neighbors or someon
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