Due to advances in medicine, people are living longer than ever before. With that progress comes a variety of new complications. How do you manage trusts and wills when a client's mental capacity might be in question? How do you handle retirement, social security, and Medicare over twenty or thirty years? How can you ensure the quality of late-in-life and end-of-life care? How do you prevent financial and other forms of abuse? Such questions are more common and more complex as lifespans stretch out into the eighties and nineties. Elder Law Client Strategies in California addresses these concerns in the context of one state and theorizes about how California standards might apply elsewhere. The expert authors discuss the intersection of trusts and long-term care, guardianships and conservatorships, and the effect of capacity issues on estate planning. For attorneys trying to help elderly clients ensure safety, health, and security in the last years of their lives, this book provides valuable advice and perspectives.

Chapters Include:
1. Marty Burbank, Founding Partner, OC Elder Law - "Capacity Issues and Other Factors Impacting Elder Law Clients and Attorneys in California"
2. Melinda Hunsaker, Managing Partner, McGonigle & Hunsaker LLP -"Estate Planning, Protective Proceedings, and the Incapacitated Elder"
3. Mark L. Russakow, Partner, Russakow & Tan LLP -"Probate and Trust Litigation During the Largest Transition of Wealth in the History of the World"