Elderly Clients: A Precedent Manual provides a comprehensive wealth of precedents to assist the private client adviser in tackling the whole range of issues that affect elderly clients in the UK. These include the difficult and ever-changing problems of planning for a client's possible incapacity in later life, care contracts, funeral planning, wills, and equity release schemes. In addition to the UK precedents, useful checklists assist the adviser in such matters as registering a lasting power of attorney and establishing whether the client has authority to make a will or gift. Each chapter of this third edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of all major developments including: the UK's Mental Capacity Act 2005 (affecting lasting powers of attorney, mental capacity issues, deputyship [replacing receivership], new law and practice on statutory wills, and the statutory basis for a living will); the Health and Social Care Act 2007 (covering changes to care homes); and case-law changes (affecting areas such as wills and sharing residential property). It includes a CD-ROM containing all of the precedents.

Product Description: Dealing with the rights, duties, and needs of older people in the UK raises special challenges for those who advise and assist the elderly. A proper understanding of the problems they face and their particular needs is essential. Elderly People and the Law - written by two leading lawyers who have championed the rights of elderly people throughout their careers - provides expert guidance on the whole range of UK legal issues relating to older people, including mental capacity, legal rights and duties, family and carers, housing, residential care, community care, health care, challenging the authorities, and financial affairs...read more