Alzheimer's and the Practice of Law: Counseling Clients with Dementia and Their Families (ABA)

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