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Elder Law Prof Blog
2M ago
Law and Bioethics Professor Sharona Hoffman, Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University organized a terrific symposium on Cognitive Decline and the Law, held on March 1, 2024. Thank you, Sharona, for inviting me to participate! In ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
2M ago
On February 16, 2024, my law school, Penn State Dickinson Law, hosted its monthly session on Race and Equal Protection of the Law (REPL) and this time our focus was on the search for equity in aging. One of the ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
3M ago
On February 5, 2024, residents of "continuing care retirement communities" (CCRCs), also known as "life plan communities" (LPCs), made a formal presentation to officials from several departments of Washington State government, specifying key regulatory priorities when considering "financial solvency" for ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
4M ago
Recently I was one of several academics invited to provide short commentary on state efforts to provide older adults and their families with protection against elder abuse. I was interested to read the final on-line article, which offers a comparative ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
6M ago
Coast-to-coast travel can be challenging -- and inspiring. Both was true for me this last week as a result of spending hours on the road and in airplanes to attend annual meetings as an invited speaker for two resident organizations ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
6M ago
The Elder Justice Consortium, with representatives appearing on behalf of each of the 9 law schools in Pennsylvania, made their second "in person" report to the Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, with the event this year taking place on ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
9M ago
The New York Times runs a regular column called The Ethicist. It poses intriguing problems and the most recent one is definitely relevant to families, older individuals (and potentially anyone with a disability) and elder law attorneys. Because the analysis ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
9M ago
More than 300 lawyers and other professionals attended the recent Pennsylvania Elder Law Institute (July 25-26, 2023) held in Harrisburg. It was good to be back among long-time friends as well as new colleagues -- our first time together in ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
11M ago
Recently I spent a fun evening helping to celebrate the good deeds of one of Penn State Dickinson Law's alums, Hubert X. Gilroy. He was being awarded the Alexis de Tocqueville Humanitarian Award by the local chapter of United Way ..read more
Elder Law Prof Blog
1y ago
I noted a couple of developments concerning medical aid-in-dying laws that I wanted to share. First, Vermont became the second state to eliminate the reseidency requirement for aid-in-dying. This change was pursuant to litigation by a plaintiff in Connecticutt. See ..read more