Surrogates--Decision-Making for Incapacitated Adults

April 10, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Law School Moot Court Room

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UHELP Presents: Surrogates

Decision Making Discharge Planning and Application For Long Term Care Benefits For Adults Including Those Who Lack Capacity

What happens when there has been no legal planning for possible incapacity or when alternatives to guardianship and conservatorship, such as powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and designations or selections of “surrogates” fail?

Moderator: Professor James H. Pietsch

3:30–4:30 Panel 1
Learn about the roles, responsibilities and limitations of public and private entities charged with assisting and protecting adults who may lack capacity and who need help with decision-making, discharge planning and application for long-term care benefits.

Panelists

• Edie Mayeshiro, BS, Human Development, Medical Assistance Program Officer, Med-QUEST Policy and Program Development Office
• Yvonne Yim, LCSW, DCSW, Director, Office of the Public Guardian
• John McDermott,LSW, ACSW, M. Div., Long-Term Care Ombudsman
• Nicole Coglietta, LSW, CareSift

4:30–5:30 Panel 2
Learn about the basics of legal planning for the future, discharge planning, alternatives to guardianship and conservatorship, including powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and “surrogates” under Hawaiʻi law, and the potential effect of proposed statutory changes affecting Med-QUEST applications by “surrogates.”

Panelists

• Scott Suzuki, JD, MPH, Attorney-at-Law
• Mernie Miyasato-Crawford, LCSW, Tripler Army Medical Center
• Sara Tompkinson, LCSW ,VA Pacific Islands Health Care System
• Jennifer Kwok, LSW, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center

Free Seminar, refreshments provided. Doors open at 3:00pm. Please confirm your attendance.

To contact us: UHELP 956-6544 or UHELP.edu@gmail.com.

The UH Law School is located at 2515 Dole Street / Directions: http://hawaii.edu/uhelp/location.htm

Parking $5 in Parking Structure. Parking in Visitor Stalls $2 per half hour.

Event Sponsor
Law - UHELP, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Lenora Lee, (808) 956-6544, UHELP.edu@gmail.com, http://www.hawaii.edu/uhelp

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Tuesday, April 10
10:30am	Psychology Final Oral Mānoa Campus, Krauss Conference Room 101C
12:00pm	Center for Chinese Studies Research Seminar Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall 109 (or Hamilton Library 401)
1:30pm	Averilee Adkins, mezzo-soprano (junior recital) Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
2:30pm	Andrew Ching, bassoon (post baccalaureate recital) Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium
2:30pm	STEM research and STEM education and research: Funding through the NSF Mānoa Campus, Agricultural Science Room 219
3:00pm	Surrogates--Decision-Making for Incapacitated Adults Mānoa Campus, Law School Moot Court Room
3:00pm	Sociology Colloquium Series Mānoa Campus, Saunders Hall 244
6:30pm	Free Screening: "216 Beach Walk, Waikiki" With Director + Panel Mānoa Campus, Art Building, Room 101
7:30pm	UH Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium