FLAFCC Eldercaring Coordination Webinar

When family emotions and suspicions are driving your guardianship cases, amping up unproductive use of resources, and escalating risks for an older adult, what can you do? What should you do? Learn how Florida Statute 44.407 and a referral to eldercaring coordination help elders and their families point the steering wheel in the right direction.

Participants will be able to:
1. Describe the benefits of utilizing eldercaring coordination for families in high conflict regarding the care and safety of an aging loved one
2. Identify appropriate cases and refer families for eldercaring coordination
3. Ethically counteract agism and implicit biases and empower elders at the center of incapacity and guardianship hearings

Citations/references
1. Fran L. Tetunic, Eldercaring Coordination: The New Dispute Resolution Process to Address the Age-Old Problem of Old-Age, 24 Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 269 (2024)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/drlj/vol24/iss1/7
2. Fieldstone, L., Gonzalez, M., and Morley, M. (2022). Eldercaring coordination: An introduction to the newest alternative dispute resolution method in Florida, Family Law Commentator, Florida Bar Association, Vol. XXVI, Issue 2. page15-22.

The webinar is approved for CE’s for mental health and CJE credits– 2 units general education

Judge Michelle T. Morley presented for the U. S. Department of Justice, and at the United Nations on elder abuse issues, and served on the U. S. Department of Justice AIM Judicial Advisory Board. She is an advisor on the National College of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Animal Cruelty and Interpersonal Violence Work Group. She has been serving as the Probate Chair for the Conference of Circuit Judges since 2018. She has been a judicial educator since 2012. She served on the Board of the Florida Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (FLAFCC) and currently co-chairs the Eldercaring Coordination Initiative. She was part of the team that successfully lobbied for the passage of SB-368/ HB-441, now Section 44.407, Fla. Stat., the Elder-focused dispute resolution process.

Linda Fieldstone, M.Ed., is Co-Chair of the Elder Justice Initiative on Eldercaring Coordination, a collaboration of the Association for Conflict Resolution and Florida Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). She is former president of AFCC and its Florida Chapter. Linda was instrumental in the development of parenting coordination and eldercaring coordination in Florida and internationally. She was Supervisor of Family Court Services of the 11th Judicial Circuit, Florida, serving families in conflict for 26 years. She spoke at the United Nations in 2019 when eldercaring coordination was highlighted as an Awareness to Action Model for the Welfare of Ageing Persons. Linda was recognized by the Florida Supreme Court in 2019 for “visionary leadership, professional integrity, and unwavering devotion to ADR.”

Eldercaring Coordination: Regaining the steering wheel when families are driving off course and the elder is flying out the window

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