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Elder Law

Empowered paralegal: working with the elder client

by Robert E. Mongue. Carolina Academic Press. 2010.
310 pages. No updates available.

This text examines the legal and social issues involved in working with elderly clients. Legal issues discussed include estate planning, undestanding estate planning tools, public benefit programs and elder abuse. Other issues presented were end-of-life planning, understanding and documenting competency, stereotypes, psychological effects of aging, and dealing with the clients' family.