NDY Submits Public Comment to NY Dept. of Health on Advance Care Planning

…advance care planning documents at the Institute on Healthcare Directives (https://institutehcd.com/). The TRIAD Research Studies (The Realistic Interpretation of Advance Directives) are available online and can assist in informing advance care planning and policy making efforts. (See https://institutehcd.com/triad-advance-directives/.) Here are two disability rights highlights from NDY’s public comment: One area of concern in advance care plannin…

NDY Public Comment on OPTN Proposal Regarding Living Organ Donation by Persons with Certain Fatal Diseases

…o a request for comment on a proposal/white paper (proposal) by the Ethics Committee (the Committee) of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) on the topic of “Living Organ Donation by Persons with Certain Fatal Diseases Who Meet the Criteria to Be Living Organ Donors”. The organ transplant program saves lives, including some of our organization’s grassroots advocates. Its goals are of unquestionable significance. In order to fun…

Amy Hasbrouck: The ADA is Not Dead Yet and So Are We

…paraphrase Justin Dart; “get involved in politics as if your life depended on it, because it does.” Be well -AH Amy Hasbrouck Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet tigrlily61 @ gmail.com http://tvndy.ca | https://facebook.com/ToujoursVivantNotDeadYet Skype: tigrlily 450-921-3057 Valleyfield, Québec, Canada…

American Bar Association Newsletter Features Margaret Dore Article on Elder Financial Abuse and Assisted Suicide

…t Railroaded into Guardianship, 21 AM. J. FAM. L. 148 (2008), available at http://www.margaretdore.com/pdf/Dore_AJFL_Winter08.pdf. Dore’s career as an elder law attorney brought new elements to the discussion of potential issues affecting elders who might be victimized. As Dore noted in her ABA article: In 2011, Met Life released [a . . ] study . . . , which described how financial abuse can be catalyst for other types of abuse and which was illus…