FLORIDA ELDER JUSTICE CONFERENCE

Thanks to everyone who attended the conference!

​Please remember to fill out the session evaluations and overall evaluations. Your feedback will help us plan future trainings and conferences.

The conference has been approved for 11.0 General CLE and 1.5 Ethics CLE as well as 11.0 Elder and Health Law Certification CLEs.  Reference # 1902373N.
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​View the sessionmaterials here.

This one and one half day event (beginning midday on April 11) features a range of trainings on the intersecting consumer, health and housing issues that impact low-income seniors and their social determinants of health.  In addition to panel sessions covering substantive law and “practice tips,” there will be a series of short presentations on key issues and innovative projects.

​Panel Sessions

• Ethics: an overview of considerations with elderly clients
• Homeownership issues for low-income seniors
• Protecting vulnerable elderly consumers
• Medicare issues impacting low-income Florida seniors
• Tenants’ rights and affordable housing issues facing seniors
• Medicaid managed care: helping elderly clients obtain medically necessary services
• Florida’s financial exploitation injunction
• Legislation impacting Florida’s low-income elders: current issues, future priorities, and advocacy tips
• Protecting residents in nursing homes
• Maximizing advocacy through public-private partnerships
• Using technology to identify the legal risks of vulnerable adults

Brief Presentations

• Tax issues impacting seniors
• Providing income trusts through legal aid
• Dental coverage for seniors through Medicaid and Medicare
• Use of social workers in legal aid elder practice
• Retroactive Medicaid: why it is critical for seniors and the chances of restoring coverage
• Life planning: the role of legal services
• Guardianship: a national overview of issues
• Legal Services and Consumer Protection attorneys working together
• Medical legal partnerships for vulnerable elderly

Speakers
In addition to state advocates in housing, consumer, health and elder law, confirmed national speakers include:

• Eric Carlson and Natalie Kean, Justice in Aging (JIA)
• Paul Nathanson, Founder of the National Senior Citizens Law Center (now JIA)
• Hilary Dalin, Director of the Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services
• Wynn Gerhard, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services

Costs & Scholarships
There is no charge for staff from Florida’s legal aid organizations and Aging Disability Resource Centers.

There are a limited number of scholarships of $200 to help cover travel costs. Eligibility is limited to those who do not live in the Tampa/St. Pete area. If you are interested, please submit a scholarship application form no later than March 8, 2019.

Hotel
Reservations can be made at Hampton Inn Ybor on or before 3/12/19 for a guaranteed reduced rate of $169.