More and more seniors in the United States need care as their health fails and their assets dwindle. The "Greatest Generation" and the "Silent" generation that followed are living longer than ever, threatening to exhaust society's resources as well as their own. And aging Baby Boomers will create a demographic bulge never before seen, requiring smart planning both for themselves and society. Elder Care Law and You, by Certified Elder Law Attorney Deirdre Wheatley-Liss, helps you do that smart pl...
Anglo-American common law is based on what a reasonable adult male would or would not do-but not everyone in society is a reasonable adult male. For the elderly, children, and women, a legal decision can sometimes turn out tragically wrong, even when the lawyers, jurors, and judge are all competent and conscientious. Unequal Protection is a trial judge's account of her search for the causes of these wrong decisions.
About Death: Living Wills and Advance Decisions in the UK
by Hilary Page
Elder Care in Crisis (Health, Society, and Inequality, #2)
by Emily K Abel
Explains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated it Because government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that threaten to overwhelm them. The crisis also stems from the plight of direct care workers (nursing...
Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise. In spite of growing media attention and new academic research on the issue, older people often remain unrecognized as a subpopulation in public policy, programs, and homeless strategies. As such, they occupy a paradoxical position of being hypervisible while remaining overlooked.Late-Life Homelessness is the first Canadian book to address this often neglected issue. Basing her analysis on a four-year...
By recounting actual court cases, this book examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry, the special vulnerabilities of those it targets, and the ease and frequency with which it obtains hundreds of thousands of dollars per victim. It also reveals successful strategies for combating that industry and the important contributions to that effort by concerned bankers, doctors, reporters and others in the private sector. The cases reveal an increasingly sophisticated global industry that...
Long-Term Care (Long-Term Care: How to Plan & Pay for It)
by Joseph Matthews
Das DDR-Aufhebungsgesetz als Rechtfertigung fur gleichheitswidrige Versorgungsuberleitung?
by Detlef Merten
Court decisions are typically seen as one-off interventions relating to an incident in a person's life, but a legal decision can impact on the person as they were and who they will become. This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law privileges "middle age" to the detriment of the whole life story and explains why an understanding of the life course is importa...