Who Pays and Who Cares for Our Elders?
Alison Barnes, an expert on aging law and policy who is
the University of Maine School of Law Libra Visiting Professor
will speak at 6 p.m., Wednesday, February 12, in the Law School's
Moot Court Room, Portland. Her lecture, "Living With Our Elders:
Who Pays and Who Cares?" is free and open to the public.
Barnes is a professor of law at Marquette University Law
School in Milwaukee, Wis., and has been teaching classes at
the School of Law in Portland as a Visiting Libra Professor.
Prior to joining the Marquette faculty in 1993, she served
as a senior policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Special Committee
on Aging and for the George Washington University Intergovernmental
Health Policy Project. In 1990, she was appointed scholar
in residence by the Health Law Institute at Loyola University
School of Law in Chicago.
She has written and lectured extensively in the areas of
aging law and policy and is the co-author of two books on
elder law: "Elderlaw: Cases and Materials (with Frolik, 2nd
Ed., Lexis 1999) and "Advising the Older Client" (with Frolik
and Whitman, ALI/ABA 1997). She serves as editor for "Health
Care Law Desk Reference" and as editor in chief for Elder's
Advisor: Journal of Elderlaw.
The Libra Professorships were established in 1989 to attract
nationally known scholars to University of Maine System campuses.
The Professorships are endowed by a generous gift to the University
of Maine System by the late Elizabeth B. Noyce.
Please contact Bob Caswell or Judie O'Malley at the above
numbers to interview Professor Barnes.
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