As Australia’s population ages, lawyers across many areas of practice can expect to encounter clients with dementia. Learn to prevent the financial and other abuse of these clients and become a ‘dementia-capable’ legal practitioner with this online short course from UTS Open.
Clients with or at risk of dementia are often vulnerable to elder abuse. This self-paced short course will equip you with strategies to prevent it, with an emphasis on financial exploitation in power of attorney and asset for care arrangements.
You’ll explore how and why people with dementia become vulnerable to abuse, as well as developments in legislation and legal service models that respond to this growing problem.
This short course is part of a training series that develops lawyers’ knowledge and skills as ‘dementia-capable’ practitioners, with a focus on the following attributes: knowledge, professionalism, legal rights, and risks and capacity. Other courses in the series include Understanding Dementia: Facts and Foundations (on-demand) and Planning Ahead: Focus on Advance Care Planning (on-demand).
This on-demand short course will enable participants to:
gain an understanding of the common types of elder abuse and warning signs
implement strategies for preventing abuse in financial and property arrangements
respond to situations of elder abuse in ways that support clients' needs
build upon their existing professional expertise to become a dementia-capable legal practitioner
earn Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points: for NSW lawyers seeking to include this study towards their legal CPD requirements, note that completion of this short course may count as 2 CPD units (one legal CPD unit per hour).
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