Bifocal Vol. 45 Issue 4 (March 2024)

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National Health-Care Decisions Day

April 16, 2024 is National Health Care Decisions Day. In this issues director's column, we discuss the importance of advanced planning. And we highlight health care decision making resources from the Commission on Law and Aging.

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Elder Justice in 2024

David Godfrey, JD

This article discusses the program, Innovative Elder Justice: New Ways of Using Law, Medicine and Technology to Address Abuse and Financial Exploitation in an Aging Society, at Yale Law School held on February 16, 2024.

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Mental Capacity and Voting

George Shalloway

This article will focus on the major issues regarding voting and capacity as we are only a few short months away from another presidential election.

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A Tribute to Mary Joy Quinn

Erica Wood

The ABA Commission on Law and Aging was fortunate to have Mary Joy Quinn as a member and liaison from the National College of Probate Judges for many years. In this article we discuss her many accomplishments in the law and Aging field.

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Celebrating National Healthcare Decisions Day

Karren Jo Pope-Onwukwe

This article dicusses the importance of talking to your family members and friends about your wishes in the event that you cannot communicate, and how you can make a difference by doing so.

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Mini-Mental State Examinations

Kyle S. Page, PhD, Nabeel Yehyawi, PsyD, HyeRim Ryu, Edward Hines, Jr., and Rosalind Franklin

Given the continued prominence of the MMSE, this article reviews the tool and its relationship to these advances in capacity evaluations.

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Court Fiduciary Duties

Hon. Bonnie W. David

In this article by The Hon. Bonnie W. David, she discusses the years she spent advising corporate fiduciaries and how though the context is different, the governing principles are largely the same.

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Book Review: A Very Easy Death

Maggie Roberts

A book review by Maggie Roberts, Georgetown Law ‘24, on Simone de Beauvoir's, A Very Easy Death, in which Beauvoir documents her mother's death from intestinal cancer in careful detail.