The Impact of Financial Exploitation on Your Seniors

• To Act or Not to Act: Screening Considerations for Financial Capacity: Decision Making in the Elderly
  
  Speaker: Alan Piha, MD, Staff Psychiatrist Mental Health Center of Madison County



• Who's in Charge?: Understanding Guardianship, Conservatorship, Power of Attorney and Representative Payee
  
  Speaker: L. Thomas Ryan, Jr., Attorney with Ryan, Hicks, Cumpton & Cumpton



• Who You Gonna Call?: If, When, and How to Report Suspected Abuse and Exploitation
  
  Speaker: Investigator Dwight Hasty, Huntsville Police Department



• Why You Can't Use Mom's Money to Pay Your Daughter's Tuition: Institutional Medicaid, Proper Spend Down, Transfer Penalties and Hardship Applications
  
  Speaker: Reginald Owens, Decatur District Manager, Alabama Medicaid Agency



• Who's Gonna Pay?: A Plan to Prevent Nursing Home Discharge Notices When Resident's Income is Being Misused
  
  Speaker: Karen Boyles, LTCO Coordinator, Atlanta Legal Aid Society/Atlanta Ombudsman Program

Spend Down and Discharge:

The Impact of Financial Exploitation on Your Seniors

Thursday, November 12, 2009- 8:30am - 3:30pm
Shelby Center, Room 107, UAHuntsville Campus

Professional Credits Applied For
Nursing Home Administrators • Social Workers • Lawyers

This course or a portion thereof has been approved by the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission of Alabama for a maximum of 5.0 hours credit, including 0.5 hours of ethics.

Program Fee: $25 by 11/5/09 (includes Lunch)  •   $30 after 11/5/09 (Lunch on your own)