Assessing the Legal Needs of Seniors

6/22/05


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Assessing the Legal Needs of Seniors

Why Conduct a Legal Needs Assessment?

Principal Investigators Jilenne Gunther, M.S.W, J.D. Borchard Foundation on Law & Aging Alan Ormsby, J.D. Division of Aging and Adult Services

How to Conduct a Credible Legal Needs Assessment of Seniors

GETTING STARTED 1A. Get Stakeholders on Board

GETTING STARTED 1B. Utah's Stakeholders

GETTING STARTED 1B. Utah's Stakeholders

GETTING STARTED 2A. Existing Legal Needs Surveys

GETTING STARTED 2B. Utah's Research on Existing Surveys

GETTING STARTED 3A. Goals & Objectives

GETTING STARTED 3B. Utah's Goals & Objectives

GATHERING A SAMPLE 4A & B. Focus Population

GATHERING A SAMPLE 5A. Finding a Sample

GATHERING A SAMPLE 5A. Finding a Sample

GATHERING A SAMPLE 5B. Utah's Sample

SELECTING A METHOLOGY 6A. Getting the Survey to Seniors

SELECTING A METHOLOGY 6B. Utah's Mailed Survey to Seniors

CREATING THE SURVEY 7A. Drafting the Survey

CREATING THE SURVEY 7B. Utah's Survey

CREATING THE SURVEY 8A & B. Questions & Topics

CREATING THE SURVEY 9A. Testing the Survey

CREATING THE SURVEY 9B. Utah's Survey Testing

MAILING THE SURVEY 10A & B. Sending the Survey

RESULTS 11A. Response Rate

RESULTS 11B. Utah's Response Rate

RESULTS 12A & B. Decide what analysis you want?

Seniors Reporting Legal Concerns

Seniors Reporting Legal Concerns

Difficulties with Telemarketing

Difficulty with Salespersons

Medicare Drug Card

Estate Planning

Health Insurance

Health Insurance Difficulties

Recognizing Financial Abuse

Most Seniors Unaware of Legal Services

Awareness of Legal Service Organizations

Helpfulness of Lawyers Advice

Legal Issues that Concern Seniors the Most

Wanted Legal Services

Conclusions

BUDGETING 13A & B. Associated Costs

BUDGETING 14. A & B Ways to Save Costs

MORE INFORMATION

Author: Jilenne Gunther, M.S.W., J.D.,
Consulting Attorney,
The Center for Social Gerontology
Research Associate,
Borchard Foundation Law & Aging
Legal Services Developer,
State of Utah

Email: tcsg@tcsg.org

Home Page: www.tcsg.org

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