Seniors promotion

Seniors promotion

Use your Find Legal Answers resources to promote awareness of legal issues to older people

Many libraries are involved in events and activities during the NSW Seniors Festival. You can use your Find Legal Answers resources to promote awareness of legal issues during the festival and at other times of the year.

Find Legal Answers website

The Legal information for older people page links to online books, factsheets and sources of legal help for older people.

Legal information for older people

Subject resource sheets

The following subject resource sheets show you how to find information on the Find Legal Answers website, highlighting some of the resources available. You can print these out and add them to your showbags or promotional material.

Information resources to promote

Find Legal Answers Tool Kit

Use these books from your Find Legal Answers Tool Kit in library displays: 

  • The law handbook
  • Rest assured: a legal guide to wills, estates and funerals
  • Speaking for myself: planning for later life decision-making
  • Seniors guide to consumer rights in NSW

 

Planning an event

Community legal education talks are available to be presented at your library. Topics currently available are:

  • Avoiding scams
  • NDIS: how the law can help
  • Piano Forte: a program dealing with elder financial abuse.

Law talks in your library

Promotion and reporting

Promotional material

Promotional material items such as bookmarks, brochures, magnets, seniors promotional cards and showbags are available to order for your event or activity. 

Promotional material

Reporting

IMPORTANT! Don't forget to report your event or activity via our online form.

Report your seniors event

Social Media

Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media are effective methods of communication. You could use these channels to provide links to useful online resources in order to promote legal information.

Use the following hashtags:
#nswpubliclibraries
#legalanswersnsw

Videos from Legal Aid NSW

You may wish to promote the Legal Aid YouTube channel, which has a series of short videos, podcasts and webinars on a variety of legal topics.