Guarding Our Elders
Information for family members who are considering taking over decision-making responsibilities for elder members of the family.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Alaska Advance Health Care Directive You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health care decisions for you. This form includes a durable power of attorney for health care, lets you give specific instructions for any aspect of your health care to the extent allowed by law, lets you express an intention to make an anatomical gift following your death, lets you make decisions in advance about certain types of mental health treatment, and lets you designate a physician to have primary responsibility for your health care.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Power of Attorney (2009) This form can be used to create a general or specific power of attorney, either durable or non-durable. Note: for health care issues, see the Alaska Advance Health Care Directive.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Glossary of Family Law Terms
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Here you can find definitions of legal terms that are used in family law cases. You can also find links to court forms needed for family law cases.
By: Family Law Self-Help Center
Home and Community Based Service Provider Resources
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This site consists of information, forms and resources for providers including Certification, Licensure and Grants, Provider-Oriented Materials, Choice program forms, Environmental Modification forms, and Adult Protective Services and General Relief forms.
By: State of Alaska
General Information: Personal Care Program
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General information for consumers about what personal care programs are available, how to qualify for personal care, and how to become a personal care giver.
By: State of Alaska
Questions and Answers on Medicaid for the CHOICE Programs and Nursing Home Residents A 28-page pamphlet that addresses common questions on Medicaid eligibility for nursing home care. This combined pamphlet also outlines CHOICE Programs (Community and Home Options to Institutional Care for Everyone) available to people who otherwise would have to be placed in a nursing home. Medicaid rules vary from state to state, so this pamphlet should not be regarded as a reliable guide for nursing homes or Medicaid questions outside Alaska.
Warning: Congress changed several aspects of the law relating to Medicaid in February of 2006. This pamphlet will be updated soon to encompass these changes, but this has not yet been done.
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By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
Advance Directives -- What Are They? Advance directives are legal documents that are intended to clearly express a person's wishes about health treatment and care, during any time the person is mentally or physically unable to make decisions or communicate those wishes, and that are signed before he/she becomes mentally or physically incapacitated.
This material, provided by the Disability Law Center of Alaska, explains durable powers of attorney, living wills, and declarations for mental health treatment.
By: Disability Law Center of Alaska
Guardianship and Conservatorship -- What You Need to Know
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The Alaska Court System's Family Law Self-Help Center provides online information about guardianship and conservatorship. This site offers basic information, a link to the forms needed to start a guardianship/conservatorship case for an adult, and contact information if you have questions about guardianship in general.
By: Family Law Self-Help Center
Questions and Answers Regarding Personal Representatives
This pamphlet describes the role of a personal representative of an estate, as well as other information regarding the probate process.
By: Alaska Legal Services Corporation
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