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    Vol. 38, Issue 5 (June 2017)

    Volume 38 Issue 5   June 2017

    Elder

    The Future of Electronic Wills

    by Dan DeNicuolo

    While documents electronically signed and stored have become more widely accepted in the legal community, States have been extremely reluctant to push this new-age technology form of documentation to the more archaic field of Wills, Trusts and Estates. This article by COLA Summer 2017 intern, Dan DeNicuolo, takes a look into the ongoing efforts in several states to bring trust and estate law into the computer age through the creation of statute validating electronic wills and trusts.

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    Video Advance Directives: Your Smartphone Records Your Wishes

    This article by COLA Summer 2017 intern, Richard Sandza, examines how online videos have transformed the way we live and how a growing number of vendors are offering internet based methods for making video advance directives. Click on the article to view letters to the editor.

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    Book Review: How to Say It, Closing the Communications Gap with Our Elders

    by David Godfrey

    The concepts in "How To Say It to Seniors" will improve your communication with older adults.

    SPOTLIGHT

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    Sparking Change in Guardianship: ABA Commission Funds WINGS Court-Stakeholders Partnerships

    The ABA Commission on Law and Aging is pleased to announce eight awards of funding and technical assistance to state courts to establish or expand innovative, consensus-driven Working Interdisciplinary Networks of Guardianship Stakeholders (WINGS). This article examines how combining the efforts of all stakeholders into WINGS, states can engage in joint problem-solving and collaboratively drive changes affecting guardianship policy and practice.

    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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