Who is an elder?
An elder is a person whose experience of life provides them with the authority to command respect from others or to whom other defer for that reason.
What is elder law?
Elder law in Australia is a developing and increasingly popular part of the practice of law. Elder law also involves other professionals including medical practitioners and aged care nurses, financial planners, accountants and students in nursing, law and medicine.
Elder Law is also about viewing the law through the prism and experience of ageing. There are many life events associated with ageing which require or involve attention from a legal perspective. They include:
- Financial disputes with business, banks, family and friends;
- Delegation of decision making capacity including financial, property, healthcare and accommodation decisions;
- Financial issues such as social security, residential aged care charges and fees, taxation, retirement planning, estate & business succession planning & superannuation;
- Life and death issues including termination, refusal and withdrawal of medical treatment;
- Making wills;
- Challenging wills.
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 March 2010 00:25