Law & Older Adults
Instructor: Laura Watts, LLB
When: Mon Feb 6th to Sun Mar 4th, 2012 (4 weeks)
ONLINE weekly at your discretion
Cost: $200 (Students $100)
Outline:
This course will serve as an overview of the intersection of health care, social work and legal issues, from a national perspective. Participants will learn about:
- the legal meaning and tests for mental capacity in Canada
- the law of "consent" and what it really means
- "vulnerable" older adults - what does it mean and what are the challenges?
- the laws of health -- care substitute decision-making
- the differences between financial advance planning documents and advance health care documents (powers of attorney, health care directives, etc.)
- the challenges of different laws in different places in Canada and elsewhere
- what is elder abuse legally?
- what is guardianship and what does it mean to you?
- the roles and responsibilities regarding reporting elder abuse across Canada
- legal responsibilities in long-term care facilities
- the new realities of later-life love and sexuality from a legal perspective
- grandparenting issues and what they mean to you
- legal remedies -- elder mediation, civil and criminal responses
Week 1: Substitute Decision-making, Health Care Consent and Mental Capacity
Week 2: What is Elder Abuse Legally?
Week 3: Remedies - What Happens and How?
Week 4: The Good Stuff - Sex, Marriage, Drugs and Property
Instructor: Laura Watts, LLB
Laura Watts is the Principal of Elder Concepts and the the former National Director of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL), the national organization which focuses on issues of law and aging in Canada. She is s a past Staff Lawyer at the British Columbia Law Institute. her work includes research, education, law reform and outreach on elder law issues. She has testified in Canada and the U.S. and authored a number of reports, articles and studies in the area of law and aging.
To Register: contact susan.murphy@utoronto.ca and cc nina.carlton@utoronto.ca for your registration form.
This workshop will be offered online and only if there is sufficient enrolment.
You must register by midnight Mon Jan 30th in order to "attend" online.
