The Legal Hotline for Older Iowans is a statewide prevention and early intervention program designed to expand older Iowans' access to justice by providing critical legal advice over the telephone to Iowans aged 60 or over. The Hotline provides prompt legal advice, brief service and referrals about health care, housing, income maintenance, safety, end-of-life planning, consumer and most other noncriminal legal issues. The Hotline's services help older Iowans prevent and resolve legal problems, avoid victimization, remain independent, and make better life-course planning decisions. The overall goal of the Legal Hotline is to improve the delivery of and access to legal services to all older Iowans throughout the state. The specific objectives are to: (1) Provide free legal advice to older Iowans, with emphasis on those elderly in greatest economic and social need, persons in rural areas, and ethnic and/or racial minority persons; (2) Operate the Hotline as a resource for the delivery of elder rights protections provided under Title VII of the Older Americans Act; (3) Strengthen and broaden the role of private attorneys in the delivery of legal services to older Iowans.


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    Title :

    LSCI Legal Hotline for Older Iowans


    Contributors:
    S. Hartsook (author)

    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    112 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English