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    Vol. 40, Issue 4 (March-April 2019)

    Vol. 40 Issue 4   March 2019

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    Combatting Financial Elder Abuse

    This article by Charles Golbert, Acting Public Guardian of Cook County, Illinois, examines efforts to combat the exploding problem of elder financial abuse in our society.

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    Bridging the Lawyer-Clinician Gap in Advance Care Planning

    This article first examines clinicians and lawyers differing approaches and the practical problems resulting in creating advance directives. It then describes an interdisciplinary project undertaken by the ABA Commission on Law and Aging with key partners to develop a unified set of practice principles for both lawyers and clinicians and an advance care planning practice checklist specifically for lawyers that brings counseling practices more in alignment with the clinical realities clients face.

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    Barriers to Universal Advance Directives

    This article examines how health care advance directive laws vary quite a bit from state to state and why that is so.

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    Profile of Laura Ruppalt, 2018-2019 Intern with the Commission on Law and Aging

    Second year George Mason University Law School student and Baltimore native Laura Ruppalt splits her time between law school, working as a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and interning as a law clerk at the Commission on Law and Aging. It’s part of a somewhat unlikely career transition from a decade of professional work in the field of technology and applied physics to the field of law.

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    Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors: 2019 National Aging and Law Conference

    The Commission on Law and Aging invites you to sponsor or exhibit at the 2019 National Aging and Law Conference (NALC). NALC brings together attorneys, advocates, policy experts, and legal service development and delivery experts from across the country. The thing that sets NALC apart from other conferences on law and aging is a focus on issues impacting low to moderate income clients and the advocates that provide services to them. NALC is the only national conference that focuses on poverty elder law.

    ABOUT BIFOCAL

    BIFOCAL, the Commission on Law and Aging's bi-monthly journal, provides timely, valuable legal resources pertaining to older persons, generated through the joint efforts of public and private bar groups and the aging network.

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