UGA Bulletin

Course Description

The field of elder law is broad. This course surveys the core issues and areas of elder law practice and touches on emerging, trending issues.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them is the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate students. Law students are professional students, not undergraduate students. Graduate law students are primarily international lawyers seeking expertise in the American legal system. This expertise is gained through exposure to Juris Doctor courses.

Athena Title

Elder Law

Non-Traditional Format

Research paper required. Those enrolled for three credit hours will spend approximately fifty hours in a supervised clinical setting.

Semester Course Offered

Offered spring

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student learning Outcomes

To explore ethical issues unique to elder law practice
To expose the profoundly intimate and fundamental human and constitutional rights at stake in elder law advocacy
To identify gaps in elder law and to think critically and creatively about needed changes to laws or approaches to elder law practice

Topical Outline

Elderly client population
Representation of elders, including client capacity and attorney ethics
Federal and state elderly programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security
Access to care and services, including housing, transportation, and medical care
Advance care planning, including healthcare, surrogate decision-making, and advance directives
Estate planning, including lifetime and estate disposition tools
Judicial removal of rights in guardianship and conservatorship
Abuse, neglect, and exploitation of elders

Syllabus

Public CV

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