Elder law : a guide to working with older Australians / edited by Sue Field, Karen Williams and Carolyn Sappideen.

Annandale, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 2018.

1st edition

88660

Older people -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Australia.

Older people -- Services for -- Australia.

Geriatrics -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

Wills -- Australia.

Part I: Introduction

1. Overview of elder law

--Part II: Your capacity to make decisions

2. Tribunals and statutory authorities

3. Assessment of decision-making capacity

4. Powers of attorney

5. Enduring guardianship

6. Advance care directives

7. Supported decision-making

Part III: Where you live: support services and accommodation options

8. National Disability Insurance Scheme

9. Commonwealth Home Support Programme

10. Granny flats

11. Boarding houses

12. Mobile, relocatable, manufactured homes and lifestyle resorts

13. Retirement villages

14. Residential aged care facilities and home care

Part IV: Funding your retirement: sources of income and risk

15. Government pensions and benefits

16. Superannuation

17. Reverse mortgages

18. Financial abuse

Part V: Your estate

19. Your estate

Part VI: A fair go

20. Discrimination.

Elder Law is a book for the legal practitioners, financial advisors, allied health professionals and medical practitioners working with older Australians. It is also a comprehensive and practical book for academics teaching the elder law advisors of the future. - Publishers website.

9781760021825

xviii, 337 pages ; 24 cm