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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A compilation of leading articles on the myriad issues of "elder law"<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566396523&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1279_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Aging and the Law</h1>
<H2>An Interdisciplinary Reader</H2>
<h3>edited by Lawrence A. Frolik</h3>
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</P><p>As Americans live longer, and as the "baby boom" generation approaches retirement, the social, political, and legal needs of older citizens pose a challenge to our institutions. One response has been the rise of "elder law." In this groundbreaking reader, Lawrence A. Frolik gathers together seminal essays on the intersection of law and issues affecting older Americans. The essays take into account not only a variety of professional perspectives but also the perspectives of individual older people, caregivers, and family members.
<p>After an introduction covering the nature of elder law, social attitudes toward the elderly, aging and ethnicity, and generational justice, the book includes sections on work, income, wealth; housing, mental capacity, health-care decision making; long-term care, health-care finance, family and social issues; and abuse, neglect, victimization, and elderly criminals. It concludes with essays on legal representation and ethical issues. The essays have been edited to make them easily accessible to students and the general reader, and Professor Frolik has supplied introductions to the sections, as well as summaries of issues for which essays could not be included.
<p>Both comprehensive and engaging, <I>Aging and the Law</I> brings together essays by lawyers, social workers, health-care professionals, and policy-makers, as well as selected case law and congressional hearings.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>List of Contributors
<p><b>Part I: Introduction</b>
<br>1. WHAT IS ELDERLAW?
<br>The Developing Field of Elder Law: A Historical Perspective – Lawrence A. Frolik
<br>2. WHY TREAT OLDER PERSONS AS A SEPARATE CATEGORY?
<br>An Aging Population: A Challenge to the Law – Lawrence A. Frolik and Alison P. Barnes
<br>America the Aging: Changing Demographics Pose Dramatic New Challenges for Our Country and the Courts – Alison P. Barnes and Lawrence A. Frolik
<br>3. SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ELDERLY
<br>Ageism: Paternalism and Prejudice – Linda S. Whitton
<br>4. WHO IS OLD?
<br>An Aging Population: A Challenge to the Law – Lawrence A. Frolik and Alison Barnes
<br>5. AGING AND ETHNICITY
<br>Gender and Family Issues in Minority Groups – Barbara W. K. Yee
<br>6. GENERATIONAL JUSTICE
<br>Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly, 1967-92 – Daniel B. Radner
<br>Justice Across the Generations – Richard A. Epstein
<p><b>Part II: Work, Income and Wealth</b>
<br>7. RETIREMENT
<br>8. AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT
<br>Note: A Rose by Any Other Name No Longer Smells as Sweet: Disparate Treatment Discrimination and the Age Proxy Doctrine After <i>Hazen Paper Co.v. Biggins</i> – Toni J. Querry
<br>The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 – George J. Tichy, II
<br>Hands-Tying and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act – Christine Jolls
<br>Age-Based Exit Incentives, Coercion, and the Prospective Waiver of ADEA Rights: The Failure of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act – Michael C.Harper
<br>9. PENSIONS
<br>The Role of Pensions in Retirement Income: Trends and Questions – Virginia P.Reno
<br>Special Tax Treatment for Employer-Based Retirement Programs: Is It "Still" Viable as a Means of Increasing Retirement Income? Should It Continue? – Daniel I. Halperin
<br>10. SOC IAL SECURITY
<br>Social Security Bulletin 1991
<br>Protecting Social Security and Medicare – William G. Dauster
<br>Social Security and Older Workers – Michael V. Leonesio
<br>Social Security Discrimination Against African Americans: An Equal Protection Argument – Geoffrey T. Holtz
<br>A Guide to Social Security Money's Worth Issues – Dean R. Leimer
<br>11. SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
<br>Top Ten Myths of Social Security – Richard L. Kaplan
<br>Advisory Council on Social Security Report
<br>Social Security: Prospects and Proposals for Privatization – Merton C. Bernstein
<br>Changing Social Security Benefits to Reflect Child-Care Years: A Policy Proposal Whose Time Has Passed? – Howard M. Iams and Steven H. Sandell
<br>Tax Policy and Feminism: Competing Goals and Institutional Choices – Anne Alstott
<p><b>Part III: Housing</b>
<br>HOUSING NEEDS
<br>The Special Housing Needs of Older Persons: An Essay – Lawrence A. Frolik
<br>13. APPROPRIATE HOUSING
<br>Beyond the Beltway: Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 – Andrea D. Panjwani ,
<br>14. CONTINUING CARE COMMUNITIES
<br>The Continuing Care Community: Will It Meet Your Client's Changing Needs? Christine A. Semanson
<br>15. BOARD AND CARE HOMES
<br>U.S. Senate, Special Committee on Aging and Select Committee on Aging, U.S. House of Representatives (1989) – Joint Hearing
<br>Board and Care: A Failure in Public Policy
<br>16. ASSISTED LIVING
<br>Assisted Living for Low-Income Seniors – David Abromowitz and Rebecca Plaut
<p><b>Part IV: Mental Capacity Issues</b>
<br>17. EVALUATING MENTAL CAPACITY
<br>Determining Decisional Capacity: A Medical Perspective – Robert P.Roca
<br>Assessing Decision-Making Capacity – Bernard Lo
<br>18. LEGAL STANDARDS OF MENTAL INCAPACITY
<br>Florida Guardianship and the Elderly: The Paradoxical Right to Unwanted Assistance – Alison P. Barnes
<br>19. GUARDIANSHIP PROCEDURES
<br>A Social Science Perspective on the Law of Guardianship: Directions for Improving the Process and Practice – Phillip B. Tor and Bruce D. Sales
<br>The National Probate Court Standards: The Role of the Courts in Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings – Paula L. Hannaford and Thomas L. Hafemeister
<br>20. GUARDIANSHIPREFORM
<br>Preserving Dignity and Self-Determination of the Elderly in the Face of Competing Interests and Grim Alternatives: A Proposal for Statutory Refocus and Reform – Jan Ellen Rein
<br>Plenary Guardianship: An Analysis, a Critique and a Proposal for Reform – Lawrence A. Frolik
<br>Losing It in California: Conservatorship and the Social Organization of Aging – Lawrence M. Friedman and June O. Starr
<br>21. PERSONAL AUTONOMY AND FAMILIES
<br>Who's the Parent Here? The Family's Impact on the Autonomy of Older Persons – Marshall B.Kapp
<br>When Parents Die: A Response to <i>Before Guardianship: Abuse of Patient Rights Behind Closed Doors</i> – Sidney D. Watson
<br>22. ALTERNATIVES TO GUARDIANSHIP
<br>Planning Tools Available to the Elderly Client – Ramona C. Rains
<p><b>Part V: Health Care Decision Making</b>
<br>23. THE DOCTRINE OF INFORMED CONSENT
<br>Autonomy, Competence, and Informed Consent in Long-Term Care: Legal and Psychological Perspectives – William M. Altman, Patricia A. Parmelee, and Michael A. Smyer
<br>Factoring Ethnic and Racial Differences into Bioethics Decision Making – Vicki Michel
<br>A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment (SUPPORT) and The SUPPORT Principal Investigators
<br>24. THE RIGHT TO DIE OF COMPETENT OLDER ADULTS
<br>Pocono Medical Center v. Harley, 11 Fiduc. Rptr. 2d 128 (1990) (Penna. Monroe County)
<br>25. COMPETENT OLDER ADULTS
<br>Nursing Home Residents' Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments – Linda O'Brien, Jeane Ann Grisso, Greg Maislin, Karin LaPann, Karol P. Krotki, Peter J. Greco, Elisabeth A. Siegert, Lois K. Evans
<br>26. STRUCTURAL RESPONSES TO COMPETENCY AND INFORMED CONSENT
<br>CONTROVERSIES
<br>"Fitting the Forum to the Fuss" in Acute and Long-Term Care Facilities – Erica Woodand Naomi Karp
<br>27. MENTALLY INCAPACITATED OLDER PATIENTS
<br>A. <u>What is Mental Capacity?</u>
<br>Determining Patient Competency in Treatment Refusal Cases – Kevin R. Wolff
<br>In re Milton 505 N.E. 2d 255 (Supreme Court of Ohio 1987)
<br>B. <u>Proxy Decision Making</u>
<br>Privacy and Personhood Revisited: A New Framework for Substitute Decision-making for the Incompetent, Incurably Ill Adult – Linda C.Fentiman
<br>In re Daniel Joseph Fiori, an adjudged incompetent 673 A.2d 904 (Pa. 1996)
<br>C. <u>Legislative Responses</u>
<br>Uniform Health Care Decisions Act Gives New Guidance – David M. English and Alan Meisel
<br>28. ASSISTED SUICIDE
<br>Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the United States: Legal and Ethical Observations – T. Howard Stone and William J. Winslade
<br>The Justification of Physician-Assisted Deaths – Tom L. Beauchamp
<br>Against Assisted Suicide—Even a Very Limited Form – Yale Kamisar
<br>Just Caring: Assisted Suicide and Health Care Rationing – Leonard M. Fleck
<br>Old Folks on the Slippery Slope: Elderly Patients and Physician-Assisted Suicide – Marshall B. Kapp
<p><b>Part VI: Long-Term Care</b>
<br>29. HOME HEALTH CARE
<br>A. <u>What Is Home Health Care?</u>
<br>The Policy and Politics of Community-Based Long-Term Care – Alison Barnes
<br>Community Care for the Frail Elderly: A Theory of Empowerment – Joel F. Handler
<br>B. <u>Paying for Home Health Care Programs</u>
<br>Home Health Care: What It Is and Who Pays for It? – Meris L. Bergquist
<br>Expanding Autonomy of the Elderly in Home Health Care Programs – Peter J. Ferrara
<br>C. <u>Regulation of Home Health Care</u>
<br>GAO Report: "Long-Term Care: Some States Apply Criminal Background Checks to Home Care Workers"
<br>30. BOARD AND CARE HOMES
<br>Board and Care: A Failure in Public Policy
<br>A staff briefing paper prepared for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
<br>31. NURSING HOMES
<br>A. <u>Profile of Residents</u>
<br>Family Structure and the Risk of Nursing Home Admission – Vicki A. Freedman
<br>B. <u>Mechanisms for Monitoring Care</u>
<br>"Fitting the Forum to the Fuss" in Acute and Long-Term Care Facilities – Erica Wood and Naomi Karp
<br>Protecting the Rights of Nursing Home Residents: How Tort Liability Interacts with Statutory Protections – Jeffrey Spitzer-Resnick and Maya Krajcinovic
<br>32. FINANCING LONG-TERM CARE
<br>Illegal Guarantees in Nursing Homes: A Nursing Facility Cannot Force a Resident's Family Members and Friends to Become Financially Responsible for Nursing Facility Expenses – Eric Carlson
<br>Contracts to Devise or Gift Property in Exchange for Lifetime Home Care-Latent and Insidious Abuse of Older Persons – Clifton B. Kruse, Jr.
<p><b>Part VII: Health Care Finance</b>
<br>33. MEDICARE
<br>A. <u>Introduction</u>
<br>Tax Plans for the Twenty-First Century: Medical Incentive Vouchers Address the Needs of Academic Health Centers and the Elderly – Nina J. Crimm
<br>B. <u>History of Medicare</u>
<br>Medicare Managed Care From the Beneficiary's Perspective – Eleanor D. Kinney
<br>The Right to Health Care, the Social Contract, and Health Reform in the United States – Christine Cassel
<br>C. <u>Medicare and Health Maintenance Organizations</u>
<br>34. MEDICARE REFORM
<br>The Tough Choices Commission – Anne E. Berdahl
<br>"Budgetized" Health Entitlements and the Fiscal Constitution in Congress's 1995-1996 Budget Battle – Charles Tiefer
<br>Protecting Social Security and Medicare – William G. Dauster
<br>35. RATIONING OF HEALTH CARE
<br>Older Americans and the Rationing of Health Care – Andrew H. Smith and John Rother
<br>36. MEDICAID
<br>Medicaid Reform: Saving an American Success Story – The Honorable Bob Graham
<br>37. MEDICAID REFORM
<br>Testimony, March 11, 1997 – Bob Miller and Michael O. Leavitt
<br>Misinformation and Self-Deception in Recent Long-Term Care Policy Trends – Jan Ellen Rein
<br>38. FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPOVERISHED PARENTS
<br><i>Americana Healthcare Center v. Randall</i>: The Renaissance of Filial Responsibility – Robin M. Jacobson
<br>Savoy v. Savoy, 433 Pa. Super. 549, 641 A.2d 596 (Superior Court of Pennsylvania 1994)
<p><b>Part VIII: Family and Social Issues</b>
<br>39. MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
<br>40. SPIRITUAL ISSUES
<br>Spirituality and Aging Well – Dan Blazer
<br>The Role of Church and Family Support in the Lives of Older African Americans: A New Look at Families and Aging, and Black Churches as Support Systems – Carla T. Walls
<br>Spiritual Care for the Elderly: An Integral Part of the Nursing Process – Ranjana Sardana
<br>41. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
<br>A. <u>Alcohol</u>
<br>B. <u>Suicide</u>
<br>C. <u>Loneliness</u>
<br>The Relationship of Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Physical Health to Dietary Adequacy of Independently Living Elderly – Dellmar Walker and Roy E. Beauchene
<br>D. <u>Mental Illness</u>
<br>Hearing, Senate Special Committee on Aging-1996
<p><b>Part IX: Abuse, Neglect, Victimization, and Elderly Criminals</b>
<br>42. ABUSE AND NEGLECT OF OLDER PERSONS
<br>A. <u>Definitions and Causes</u>
<br>Elder Abuse – Sandra Baron and Adele Welty
<br>Elder Abuse and Guardians of Elderly Incompetents – Lawrence A. Frolik
<br>Elder Mistreatment: A Multidimensional Problem – Christine S. Sellers, W. Edward Folts, and Katherine M. Logan
<br>B. <u>Financial Exploitation</u>
<br>Contracts to Devise or Gift Property in Exchange for Lifetime Home Care—Latent and Insidious Abuse of Older Persons – Clifton B. Kruse, Jr.
<br>43. ABUSE AND NEGLECT IN INSTITUTIONS
<br>Covert Elder Abuse in the Nursing Home – Dorothy I. Meddaugh
<br>44. SENTENCING OF ELDERLY CRIMINALS
<br>The Sentencing of Elderly Criminals – Molly F.James
<br>The Incarceration of Older Criminals: Balancing Safety, Cost, and Humanitarian Concerns – William E. Adams, Jr.
<br>Golden Years Behind Bars: Special Programs and Facilities for Elderly Inmates – Ronald H. Aday
<p><b>Part X: Legal Representation and Ethical Considerations</b>
<br>45. INTRODUCTION
<br>Ethical Considerations in Representing the Elderly – Mark Falk
<br>46. REPRESENTING THE INCAPACITATED CLIENT
<br>Representing the Elderly Client and Addressing the Question of Competence – Linda F. Smith
<br>Access, Connection, and Voice: A Contextual Approach to Representing Senior Citizens of Questionable Capacity – Peter Margulies
<br>Representing Defendants in Guardianship Proceedings: The Attorney's Dilemma of Conflicting Responsibilities – Anne K. Pecora
<br>47. ETHICAL CONFLICTS
<br>The Ethical Management of Assets for Elder Clients: A Context, Role, and Law Approach – Steven H. Hobbs and Fay Wilson Hobbs
<p>About the Contributors
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1279_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><B>Lawrence A. Frolik</B> is Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.</P></td></tr></table>
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