LAW 818 - Advanced Directives: End of Life Seminar

College of Law
1 credit(s)

This course will address NY health care advance directives and will include and experiential component conducted in collaboration with Luvenia Cowart, Professor of Practice in Public Health, and Dr. Maria Brown, Research Professor in Social Work, both of Falk College. The legal services will be offered in conjunction with Professor Cowart and Dr. Brown’s “Healthy Living” program, which provides services to predominantly African American caregivers of people with dementia. This grant-funded initiative provides education, wellness activities, information and referral, and other services to caregivers in central Syracuse. Students will learn the substantive law relevant for advising clients, in this case typically the caregivers, on preparing health care directives, provide a community education presentation on these issues, and assist caregiver participants in a “limited legal assistance” capacity in completing these documents.