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Health, wills and other legal issues affecting older people
Health and the law
  • Introduction
  • Consent and information
  • Access to medical records
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Blood transfusions and organ transplants
  • Post-mortem examinations
  • Making a complaint
  • Contacts
Legal issues affecting older people
  • Introduction
  • Elder abuse
  • Transferring property or assets in exchange for care
  • Age discrimination
  • Grandparenting
  • Going into residential care and selling a home
  • Other legal issues affecting older people
  • Contacts
Wills
  • Introduction
  • The law of wills
  • Formalities of a will
  • Storage of a will
  • The parties involved in making a will
  • Changing a will
  • An example of a will
  • Having a will drawn up
  • Contacts Model will
Estates
  • Introduction
  • Probate
  • Letters of administration
  • Executors, administrators and trustees
  • Settled estates
  • Applying for a grant of probate
  • Legal actions after death and insolvent estates
  • Contesting a will
  • Intestacy
  • Small estates
  • Duties and costs
  • Contacts
Funerals
  • Meeting the costs of a funeral
  • Complaints about funeral services
  • Contacts
  • Introduction
  • The role of the coroner
  • The registration of a death
  • Arranging a funeral
  • Burial, cremation and donation of remains
  • After burial or cremation

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