Alzheimer's and the Practice of Law: Counseling Clients with Dementia and Their Families (ABA)
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-29
- ISBN:
- 978-1-627222-40-2
Index
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Expert View I Have Become My Wife's Parent
- Chapter 1 What Is Alzheimer's Disease?
- Expert View Client Confabulation: the Attorney's Consternation
- Chapter 2 Ethics and the Alzheimer's Client
- Chapter 3 Life, Death, and Care Instructions
- Appendix Health-care Power of Attorney and Combined Advance Directive Legislation
- Expert View Surprising Truths Within Hospice Care
- Expert View 10 Tips for Caregivers
- Chapter 4 Special-needs Trusts and Pooled Trusts
- Appendix A Declaration of Trust (excerpt)
- Appendix B Will of John Pourback
- Expert View The Marriage of Technology and Alzheimer's Caregiving: Staying Safely at Home Longer
- Chapter 5 Government Benefits
- Expert View The Red Flag of Alzheimer's: a Change of Character
- Chapter 6 Guardianships and Conservatorships
- Expert View Even Experienced Lawyers Make These Mistakes
- Chapter 7 Financial Exploitation
- Expert View When the Indispensable Caregiver Is the Abuser
- Chapter 8 Personal-care Agreements and Nursing Home Contracts
- Expert View The Hope of Vanquishing Alzheimer's Disease
- Glossary