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Read information about home modification on the AOTA Web site. Mentally restate the information in your own words and style and look for opportunities to include it in your professional speaking and writing. Respond to media coverage related to aging-in-place issues. Send specific materials, such as the Tips for Living about home modification, with a cover letter offering yourself or your occupational therapy organization as a knowledgeable resource. Write a letter to the editor or an op-ed piece focused on the issue to which you are responding. Develop your own articles with tailored messages to meet the specific needs and interests of your target audience. For example, a local home design or health magazine may be interested in publishing an article on home modifications designed to meet home safety and accessibility issues facing aging parents. Include local resources in the article and mention your state occupational therapy association and AOTA. Distribute copies of the Background on AOTA and Rebuilding Together for Occupational Therapy Students and Practitioners* to your state or district occupational therapy association and to colleagues at your workplace. Encourage colleagues to refer eligible homeowners for Rebuilding Together’s home repair program and to get involved with Rebuilding Together. Tell them to visit the AOTA Web site for more information. Distribute copies of the Tip Sheets at health fairs, conferences, and community special events. Adapt or adopt materials and create inserts for newsletters, faith bulletins, etc. Many people are facing home safety and accessibility issues with parents, grandparents, or spouses, and would appreciate information. Organizations will be glad to know that you can provide ready-made copy for their publications. Write articles for the Web. Online health sites depend on submitted copy. Gear length, style, and language to the target publication and develop a piece on home modification and aging in place that includes information about occupational therapy. Send the article pasted in the body of an e-mail. The subject line of the e-mail should be provocative and attention-getting. Your e-mail introduction, the four to six lines that are visible when the e-mail is opened, needs to be brief. State the issue and why readers will be interested, reference the submitted article, and include your credentials and affiliation. Inform AOTA of published and posted articles by sending an e-mail to praota@aota.org. We love to hear about your successes!
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