As our population ages, mediators who specialize in Elder Mediation and Shared Family Decision Making will be more and more in demand. Are you ready to be one of the select mediators in Florida trained in this discipline?  This comprehensive course covers a wide variety of issues related to family dynamics and the legal and financial issues Elder Mediators encounter.  We will discuss the landscape of elder law, elder affairs, care-giving, care management, elder services, family dynamics, and mediation marketing so that you are best prepared to launch or expand your Elder Law Mediation and Shared Family Decision-Making practice.

 

Elder Mediation helps seniors and their adult children resolve conflicts regarding:

 

• Care-giving

• Living Arrangements

• Financial planning

• Medical decisions

• Communication

• Driving

• Guardianship

• Issues of Independence

• Short vs Long Term Care Concerns

• Issues of Grief and Loss

• Funeral Planning

 

This program provides:

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• Florida Bar Approved Continuing Legal Education: 17 General, including 2 hours of Ethics. Additionally this program provides 17 Elder Law Certification hours.

• 16 hours of Continuing Mediator Education apportioned as 4 hours of Mediator Ethics, 4 hours of Diversity, 4 hours of Interpersonal Violence, and 4 General hours.

• 14 hours of CEU for Florida Licensed Mental Health Professionals.

• This program meets the training guidelines for Elder Mediation Training published by the Supreme Court of Florida Committee on ADR Rules and Policy.

• This program meets the training requirements for Elder Mediation training on advanced tactics for dispute resolution of issues related to aging, illness, incapacity, or other vulnerabilities associated with elders, as well as elder, guardianship, and incapacity law and procedures and less restrictive alternatives to guardianship.

 

This program meets 9:00am to 1:00pm each day.