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Special Populations: Mobilization For Change Apr 2013

Special Populations: Mobilization For Change

Touro Law Review

This Article is based on a transcript of a break-out discussion which took place at An Obvious Truth: Creating an Action Blueprint for a Civil Right to Counsel in New York State, held at Touro Law Center, Central Islip, New York, in March 2008. The discussion was moderated by Karen L. Nicolson, Michael Williams, and Toby Golick.

This Article assesses the needs of various special populations and the possible strategies and solutions to create change through enacting a civil right to counsel. The Article is intended to capture information and viewpoints of the people who participated in the break-out discussion …


Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink Mar 2013

Putting Boomers To Pasture: Does The 2010 Mippa Legislation Reinforce The Nursing Home Bias?, Robert S. Bloink

Pace Law Review

This article seeks to explore what lessons can be learned from how Medicaid end-of-life health care services are provided to the poor post-Olmstead, and how these lessons can be applied to middle class and upper middle class boomers. The article equally seeks to address how such lessons can be integrated into a meaningful dialogue with retiring boomers in a fashion that encourages discussion and decisions regarding end-of-life health care, as opposed to leaving such tough calls for surviving adult children.

To this end, Part II of this article begins by examining the hurdles seniors face in accessing HCBS after the …


There But For The Grace Of God Go I: The Right Of Cross-Examination In Social Security Disability Hearings , Bradley S. Dixon Mar 2013

There But For The Grace Of God Go I: The Right Of Cross-Examination In Social Security Disability Hearings , Bradley S. Dixon

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


The Shifting Focus Of Federal Intervention In Retiree Health Benefits, Susan E. Cancelosi Mar 2013

The Shifting Focus Of Federal Intervention In Retiree Health Benefits, Susan E. Cancelosi

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Death Panels And The Rhetoric Of Rationing, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard Mar 2013

Death Panels And The Rhetoric Of Rationing, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Not-So-Golden Years: The Legal Response To Elder Abuse, David P. Mathews Jan 2013

The Not-So-Golden Years: The Legal Response To Elder Abuse, David P. Mathews

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Chapter 659: Overcoming Obstacles To Elder Abuse Prevention, Anthony Schiavo Jan 2013

Chapter 659: Overcoming Obstacles To Elder Abuse Prevention, Anthony Schiavo

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Jan 2013

Table Of Contents

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Jan 2013

Table Of Contents

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Radioactive Veterans: A New Look At The Nuclear History Of America, Craig M. Kabatchnick, P. Michelle Fitzsimmons, Jonathan B. Kelly Jan 2013

Radioactive Veterans: A New Look At The Nuclear History Of America, Craig M. Kabatchnick, P. Michelle Fitzsimmons, Jonathan B. Kelly

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Scientific, Social & Legal Perspectives On Obesity: What Grown-Ups Need To Know, Judith G. Mcmullen Jan 2013

Scientific, Social & Legal Perspectives On Obesity: What Grown-Ups Need To Know, Judith G. Mcmullen

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Health Care Decision Making In The Veterans Health Administration: The Legal Significance For Informed Consent And Advance Directives, Liliana Kalogjera Barry Jan 2013

Health Care Decision Making In The Veterans Health Administration: The Legal Significance For Informed Consent And Advance Directives, Liliana Kalogjera Barry

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Confronting The Elder Care Crisis: The Private Long-Term Care Insurance Market And The Utility Of Hybrid Products Jan 2013

Confronting The Elder Care Crisis: The Private Long-Term Care Insurance Market And The Utility Of Hybrid Products

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Clear Depictions Promote Clear Decisions: Drafting Abortion Speech-And-Display Statutes That Pass First And Fourteenth Amendment Muster Jan 2013

Clear Depictions Promote Clear Decisions: Drafting Abortion Speech-And-Display Statutes That Pass First And Fourteenth Amendment Muster

Marquette Elder's Advisor

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The Right To Posthumous Bodily Integrity And Implications Of Whose Right It Is, Hilary Young Jan 2013

The Right To Posthumous Bodily Integrity And Implications Of Whose Right It Is, Hilary Young

Marquette Elder's Advisor

The law protects posthumous bodily integrity by allowing people to decide what will happen to their bodies after death. This article asks whose rights these laws intend to protect: the rights-holders could consist only of living individuals whose bodies will become the corpses at issue or could include the dead themselves. Whether rights to posthumous bodily integrity belong only to the living or survive death leads to three types of insight. First, the reasons for protecting posthumous bodily integrity are different depending on who the rights-bearers are. Second, to the extent that some laws are more consistent with an approach …


Implications Of The Supreme Court's Decision In Pliva, Inc. V. Mensing: Why Generic And Brand-Name Pharmaceuticals Must Be Treated Equally Under The Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act Jan 2013

Implications Of The Supreme Court's Decision In Pliva, Inc. V. Mensing: Why Generic And Brand-Name Pharmaceuticals Must Be Treated Equally Under The Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Preventing Resident-To-Resident Abuse In Long-Term Care: Targeting Sex Offenders But Missing The Mark Jan 2013

Preventing Resident-To-Resident Abuse In Long-Term Care: Targeting Sex Offenders But Missing The Mark

Marquette Elder's Advisor

No abstract provided.


Silent Victims Of The Financial Decline, Emily Hardy Jan 2013

Silent Victims Of The Financial Decline, Emily Hardy

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Peter J. Strauss Jan 2013

Introduction, Peter J. Strauss

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


Longevity Insurance: Strengthening Social Security For Older Retirees, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2013), John A. Turner Jan 2013

Longevity Insurance: Strengthening Social Security For Older Retirees, 46 J. Marshall L. Rev. 843 (2013), John A. Turner

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.