No Longer on Their Own: Using Emeritus Attorney Pro Bono Programs to Meet Unmet Civil Legal Needs
This new brochure is designed to help states successfully recruit emeritus pro bono attorneys to provide critically needed legal services to vulnerable seniors and low- and moderate individuals who are now facing their legal problems on their own. PDFs and limited print copies are available for free from the ABA Commission. E-mail your request to the ABA Commission at abaaging@abanet.org. View the PDF version of the brochure here.

See a list of states and jurisdictions that have enacted emeritus pro bono rules, the year the rules were applied, and contact information for a person responsible for overseeing the implementation of the rule here.

ABA Adopts Voting Rights and Cognitive Impairment Policy Submitted by Commission on Law and Aging
The ABA House of Delegates adopted a voting rights and cognitive impairment policy submitted by the Commission on Law and Aging, at its annual meeting on August 13.

The policy is based upon the joint effort of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging, and the Capital Government Center on Law and Policy at the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. The groups hosted a working symposium of national experts in law and aging, medicine, long-term care, voting technology, and elections administration entitled Facilitating Voting As People Age: Implications of Cognitive Impairment, which convened in March 2007 at the Pacific McGeorge School of Law.

Read the full report and recommendation

Introduction to and Summary of the Voting Symposium, 38 McGeorge L. Rev. 843 (2007)

Recommendations of the Symposium Facilitating Voting As People Age: Implications of Cognitive Impairment

State Provisions Regarding Voting: Constitutions, Election Laws, and Guardianship Statutes

Guardianship After 25 Years: In the Best Interest of Incapacitated People? Authored by Pamela Teaster, Erica Wood, Winsor Schmidt, and Susan Lawrence, the report includes extensive site visit studies of seven programs; an update on state models of public guardianship or guardianship of last resort; conclusions and recommendations, a model public guardianship act; statutory and programmatic profiles of each state's system of public guardianship or guardianship of last resort; and statutory charts. For more information, or to order print copies of the executive summary for $5 and the full report for $30, contact the ABA Commission at abaaging@abanet.org. View the Executive Summary here.

Guarding the Guardians: Promising Practices for Court Monitoring By Naomi Karp and Erica Wood. This report describes methods for helping courts protect some of our society's most vulnerable people. Through site visits to exemplary courts, the authors have identified promising approaches that can be replicated by courts around the country. 91 pp. December 2007. View and download the full report from the Web page of the AARP Public Policy Institute at: http://www.aarp.org/research/legal/guardianships/
2007_21_guardians.html.

Volunteer Guardianship Monitoring Programs: A Win-Win Solution By Ellen M. Klem. This report is a study of volunteer guardianship monitoring projects initiated by AARP in 1990. PDFs and limited print copies are available for free from the ABA Commission. E-mail your request to the ABA Commission at abaaging@abanet.org. View the PDF version of the report here.

See all the publications from the ABA Commission on Law and Aging