Links and Resources

General Bibliography

Hardy JD. Who is guarding the guardians? A localized call for improved guardianship systems and monitoring. NAELA Journal 2008;4(1):1-33. [National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys]

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AARP

http://www.aarp.org/research/legal/guardianships/

The AARP maintains a number of resources and issues reports on various topics of importance to guardians.

American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging

http://www.abanet.org/aging/guardianship.html

Includes a guardianship state legislative update and summary and the document “Health Care Decision-Making Authority: Health Care Agents vs. Court Appointed Guardians.”

California Law Revision Commission
Recommendation: Health Care Decisions for Adults Without Decisionmaking Capacity.

http://www.clrc.ca.gov/pub/Printed-Reports/Pub201-HCDL.pdf

Important policy document leading to changes in California law.

Ethics and Elder Law

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/tscollett/docs/Ethics%20and%20Elder%20Law%20bib2.htm

Site maintained by a Minneapolis law professor provides extensive bibliographies.

Florida Courts, 17^thJudicial Circuit, Broward County

http://www.17th.flcourts.org/probate_division.html

Offers a handbook for guardians and access to local guardianship procedures and forms.

Florida Department of Elder Affairs, Statewide Public Guardianship Office

http://elderaffairs.state.fl.us/english/public.html

Provides a list of the state’s registered professional guardians, the various offices of public guardians throughout Florida, current issues affecting Florida guardianship law and valuable resource links.

The Florida Senate

http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/

This site provides access to all Florida Statutes. Those of particularly relevance to guardianship and surrogate decision making are Chapter 744 and Chapter 765.

Florida State Guardianship Association

http://www.floridaguardians.com/

Contains information concerning the nature and various types of guardianships. Membership applications and a schedule of conferences and events are also available.

Illinois Office of State Guardian

gac.state.il.us/osg/osgsp.html

Provides an intake telephone number where information can be obtained concerning many aspects of guardianship, including one module titled “Ethics and guardianship: how do I know how and when to do the right thing?”

Illinois Office of State Guardian

gac.state.il.us/osg/pg_ethic.html

Addresses ethical and practical considerations for guardians as part of a larger resource, “A Practitioner’s Guide To Adult Guardianship In Illinois.”

Los Angeles Times series on guardianship

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-conservators-series,0,7048390.special

Analyses of more than 2,400 cases handled by California's professional conservators since 1997, with extensive interview.

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA)

http://www.naela.org/pdffiles/Recommendations.pdf

Contains Wingspan recommendations for national uniform guardianship legislation in document titled “Wingspan – The Second National Guardianship Conference, Recommendations.”

National Guardianship Association

http://www.guardianship.org/index.cfm

The National Guardianship Association is a national organization for guardians that provides a wide range of resources. This site includes access to “a model code of ethics for guardians” and a “Standards of Practice” document.

National Center for Ethics in Health Care

http://www1.va.gov/vhaethics/download/EthicsRx/EthicsRx_Feb06.pdf

This Veterans Health Administration site gives policy guidance on the question whether, under HIPAA, clinicians may disclose health information to surrogates. (Answer: Yes, they may.)

New Hampshire Probate Court

http://www.courts.state.nh.us/probate/guardianship.html

Gives common questions and answers concerning guardianship issues in New Hampshire.

University of Miami Ethics Programs

http://www.miami.edu/ethics/index.html

Includes resources dealing with various ethical issues in health care and business, including an ethics and geriatrics curriculum, a timeline and other material on the Terri Schiavo case and an extensive privacy, data protection and HIPAA resource.