Article on Planning for Incapacity: Helping Clients Prepare for Potential Future Health Crises

Vaughn E. James recently published an Article entitled, Planning for Incapacity: Helping Clients Prepare for Potential Future Health Crises, 9 Est. Plan. & Community Prop. L.J. 227 (2017). Provided below is an abstract of the Article:

Although disabilities are more common among the elderly, younger people are not immune, The Census Bureau reports that in 2015, 5.9% of Americans between the ages of sixteen and twenty reported having a disability; 10.7% of Americans between the ages of twenty-one and sixty-four also reported having a disability. Disabilities­—and incapacity—are not reserved for the elderly population.

Accordingly, it is prudent for all people to plan for incapacity. As individuals plan, they will turn to their lawyers—or estate planners and personal financial planners—to help them. This article examines various ways in which these professionals can help their clients prepare for potential health crises or accidents that lead to disability or incapacity.