Vol. 37, Issue 2 (December 2015)

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Funding Sources

The Commission’s operating budget is made up of core funding from ABA general revenues that provide nearly half of the funds needed to run the Commission. The remainder comes from grants, contracts, and donations.

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National Aging and Law Conference

The 2015 National Aging and Law Conference (NALC) was held October 29th and 30th at the Hilton Ballston in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elder Abuse & Financial Exploitation

Lori A. Stiegel

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.

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Legal Issues Related to Elder Abuse Guides

With funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Commission produced three free publications

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Advance Care Planning & Advanced Illness

Charlie Sabatino

The Commission has played an important role in several major advances this past year affecting advance care planning and advanced illness policy and practice

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Guardianship & Supported Decision-Making

Erica Wood

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging is committed to protecting rights in adult guardianship, exploring less restrictive options, supporting choices, ensuring high fiduciary standards, assisting family guardians, and promoting strong court oversight. Here is what we have accomplished in 2015.

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Human Rights of Older Persons

Charlie Sabatino

This year the Commission continued to participate in the annual meetings of the U.N. Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing in support of the new ABA liaison Professor Bill Mock of John Marshall Law School. The Working Group has continued to engage in extensive inquiry and debate about whether the U.N. should pursue a separate convention on the rights of older persons, or instead, seek to strengthen the enforcement of existing international normative standards as they may apply to older persons.

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Guardianship & Supported Decision-Making

Erica Wood

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging is committed to protecting rights in adult guardianship, exploring less restrictive options, supporting choices, ensuring high fiduciary standards, assisting family guardians, and promoting strong court oversight. Here is what we have accomplished in 2015.

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Your Health Care Wishes Smartphone App

With some very creative people, the Commission created 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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Your Health Care Wishes Smartphone App

With some very creative people, the Commission created 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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In Memoriam: Patricia D. Struck

We were shocked and saddened to learn that Commission member Patricia D. Struck had passed away on December 20th.