Vol. 36, Issue 2 (November - December 2014)

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2014 Review: Legal Services & Education

There were three major projects for the ABA Commission on Law and Aging’s work on legal services in the past year: creating and hosting the 2014 National Aging and Law Conference; a major update and redesign of the National Legal Resource Center website; and continuation of our Elder Law Essential Webinar Series.

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2014 Review: Guardianship & Capacity

The 2014 year has seen a kaleidoscope of actions and ideas on the guardianship and capacity front.

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2014 Review: Elder Abuse & Neglect

Since 1993, the Commission has been at the forefront of efforts to expand and improve the justice system’s role in preventing, detecting, and remedying the devastating problem of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (which we’ll just call elder abuse for short). This year those activities were concentrated in four areas.

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2014 Review: New Guide Helps Law Enforcement Detect and Respond to Elder Abuse

The Commission on Law and Aging recently published Legal Issues Related to Elder Abuse: A Pocket Guide for Law Enforcement. Development, production, and dissemination of the pocket guide was funded through a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).

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2014 Review: International Human Rights & Older Persons

This year the Commission continued to participate in what has become an annual meeting of the U.N. Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing through our liaison Bill Pope

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2014 Review: Your Health Care Wishes Just a Finger Tap Away

With some very creative people, the Commission has created version 1 of a smartphone app called My Health Care Wishes to give individuals and their family members the ability to store their own and each other’s health care advance directives, key health information, and health care contacts on their Apple or Android smartphones, and to send advance directive documents directly to health care providers by email or Bluetooth.

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The Policy and Political Challenges of Being Mortal

Charles P. Sabatino

At the ABA Midyear Meeting in February 2016, the Commission on Law and Aging and the Health Law Section will cosponsor a resolution “to support legislation and regulation that promotes access to comprehensive long-term supportive services and care for persons with advanced illness.” In this article, Commission Director Charles P. Sabatino describes the resolution and the reasons therefor.

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The Wrong Signals: Shutting Down the Planning Conversation Before It Starts

David Solie

Despite good intentions, outdated assumptions about older clients may lead advisors to inadvertently send out the wrong message--and it is this poor signaling, not the eccentricities of aging, that proves to be a primary cause of communication setbacks. The good news is that by understanding the psychology of aging, advisors can fine-tune their communication skills to resonate with the unspoken agenda of older clients.

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2015 National Aging and Law Conference

Save the date for the 2015 Conference. And, learn about ordering materials from the recent 2014 Conference.