A Short & Happy Guide to Elder Law

Students taking elder law, working in elder clinics, or simply dealing with aging relatives, should be assigned this book. Quick and easy it offers a legal checkup and describes how it is to grow older. It covers the legal issues, but also the critical not-on-the-syllabus issues: talking to one’s family, recognizing elder abuse, dealing with disability and death.

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If you're getting older (or hope to), this quick and easy guide will alert you and your family to problems that lurk and how you can use the law and practical advice to avoid them. Topics include: estate planning, healthcare powers, Medicare, reverse mortgages, grandparent rights, divorce, remarriage, disabilities, homes safety, driving, caring for others, dealing with doctors, hospice, death in the family, and, on a more hopeful note, sex. Skim this book; your family will thank you.