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Articles From Daniel M. Moore, Jr.

Help hospice out of the closet By Daniel M. Moore, Jr. Elder Law, December 2012 While the present dichotomy of curative versus hospice care exists, elder law attorneys can play a helpful, healthful role by apprising their clients making health care advance directives of the potential advantages of hospice at a future time. 
Shades of gray matter: Serving the client with diminishing capacity By Daniel M. Moore Elder Law, February 2011 The likelihood elder law attorneys will be dealing with greater numbers of clients with diminished capacity continues to increase. New Rule 1.14 of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA/APA Handbook for Lawyers can work together to best maintain the normal client-lawyer relationship.
Where the “rubber meets the road”: Advance directives in action By Daniel M. Moore, Jr. Elder Law, February 2010 You have helped a client plan ahead with advance directives such as the health care and property powers of attorney and possibly a living trust. Unless death is sudden, the efficacy of all three of these is going to depend upon the seamlessness of the transition when time for action has arrived.
The elder boom: Are you ready? By Daniel M. Moore Elder Law, March 2004 The python is about to have another case of indigestion. The front end of the Boomer generation, likened by some to a pig in a long, extended python of flat birth rates, is about to enter its 'elderly' phase.
Anatomical gifts: The ultimate recycle By Daniel M. Moore Elder Law, December 2002 Disposition of the body is probably one of the most difficult issues with which human beings and their loved ones ought to deal in life and estate planning.
Grandparents raising grandchildren: the lawyer’s role By Daniel M. Moore, Jr. Elder Law, May 2000 Grandparents often say--not completely in jest--that the great thing about this role is that you can send grandchildren home at night.
The double helix: ID 2000 By Daniel M. Moore Elder Law, November 1999 It can't be forged. It can't be lost. It's good for our lifetimes--and even beyond. It courses through our veins, it's in our bones and in every cell of our bodies, and each of us has a very unique one.
Shades of gray matter: The decisional capacity dilemma in advance directives By Daniel M. Moore Elder Law, June 1999 This article deals with a serious matter confronted at different times by lawyers and health care providers.

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