The February 2010 issue of Bifocal, Journal of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging is available online at http://tinyurl.com/yh3ccam. In this issue you'll find: -- Advocacy Victory for People with Younger-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Results in Expedited Benefits (by Leslie Fried)...
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The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College has published an issue brief by Jacquelyn B. James, Elyssa Besen, Christina Matz-Costa & Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes titled "Engaged as We Age: The End of Retirement as We Know it?" From the introduction: "In...
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The Marquette University Law School's Annual Elder's Advisor CLE begins on March 26, 2010, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The title of the CLE is "The Push to Institutionalize Prevention: We Win, We Lose." Information about the event is below: The Push...
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Lois Shepherd has posted an article titled "Autonomy and Responsibility at the End of Life," on SSRN. The abstract is below:"This essay identifies four situations in which limits to patient choices about life-sustaining treatment should be recognized, even when those...
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Phoebe Williams has posted an article titled "Age Discrimination in the Delivery of Health Care Services to Our Elders," Marq. Elder's Advisor, Vol. 11, 1. (2009), on SSRN. The abstract is below: "The problem of health care providers making age...
The New York Times, in an article titled "Tips to Avoid Financial Strain With Aging Parents," reports that an estimated 38 million Americans provide support for an elderly relative. The article offers suggestions for children of aging parents to help...
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This article, written by Kevin Moore, Barry Johnson, and Lisa Schreiber, is from the 2009 IRS Research Conference, "The Income-Wealth Paradox: Connections Between Realized Income and Wealth Among America's Aging Top Wealth-Holders." An excerpt from the introduction is below: "This paper is...
Nina A. Kohn and Edward D. Spurgeon have posted an article titled "Elder Law Teaching and Scholarship: An Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Field" 59 J.Leg.Ed.414 (2010), on SSRN. The abstract follows below: As the American population ages, the emerging...
