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    Vol. 35, Issue 4 (March - April 2014)

    Volume 35 Issue 4   March 2014

    Elder

    Will Your Health Care Advance Directive Be There When You Need It?

    James R. Silkenat

    Learn about the Commission's new health care advance directive manager app!

    Elder

    Palm Beach Guardianship Monitoring Program Offers Innovative Model

    As our nation’s population continues to age, the importance of independent monitoring of guardianship grows as well. Monitoring is critical to protecting society’s most vulnerable individuals—older individuals with dementia, younger individuals with disabilities, and minors.

    Elder

    A Guardian’s Health Care Decision-Making Authority: Statutory Restrictions

    Karna Sandler

    Guardianship is an import tool for protecting incapacitated adults who are unable to care for themselves. This article provides a comparison of state statutory restrictions on guardianship health-care decision making and analyzes how those restrictions have changed in the last ten years.

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    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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