Seniors and the Law

Topics:
  • Clinic
  • Pro Bono Program/Legal Services Organization

This 3 part seminar will provide fundamental information:

1)about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veteran's benefits that will assist all practitioners working with aging and elderly clients to understand these benefits and how benefit eligibility may affect decision-making in other legal areas.

2)Responses to calls for assistance from victims of elder exploitation, patients in nursing homes or hospitals, and wards in guardianship.

3)Strategies helping seniors to "age in place" through maintaining their
residential and financial independence.