The Law of Later-Life Health Care and Decision Making

This book provides a comprehensive description of the manner in which the law regulates and reacts to heath care and personal decision making for the elderly. Readers of this book will often find answers to their questions. Other times, there may not be a specific answer, but the reader will better understand the legal doctrine at issue. This book will be valuable as a guide that will point the reader along the direction of further research. It will also help the reader make sense of what can be a complicated and confusing mixture of federal and state statutes and case law.