About Elder Caring Lawyers

Elder Caring Lawyers are not order takers. Nor are we simply advisors, with answers to what lies around every bend, behind every door. We are more companions who have been down similar roads, who have studied the texts telling how things are designed to work, companions who will walk the road ahead alongside you.

What are the most health stimulating, wholeness inducing rhythms we can employ in elder caring lawyering? Slow the rhythms, open: allowing for all voices to be heard, from piccolo to bassoon, from kettle drum to marimba, from plaintive violin to incessant snare to trickster fife. Responsive, echoing, accompanying. Tender, touched.

Could it be that what we are about in elder caring lawyering is finding a rhythm? I see rhythms: those who are here for Just the facts, sir, or Write me up a trust (staccato); and those who are here as part of a family working out what works best for Mom and Dad and the family (slower, more intricately interwoven, pulsating, Mozart or Bach).

The trickster? Ahh, I love the notion. Where does the trickster lie in wait for us in Elder Caring Lawyering? In the elder himself, herself. In sense of humor and ways of approaching the world. In the ways we play with each other, family and friends. In the lawyer thinking What if we reverse field?

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