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ACR Announces the Formation of New Section on Elder Decision-Making and
Conflict Resolution
Join this new Section
now by logging in to the
ACR Member Center.
On the left sidebar, click the link
to "Add a Section” and check the box for “Elder
Decision-Making and Conflict Resolution Section” or call the
Member Concierge Center at 202-464-9700, press option 2, for
the staff to sign you up by telephone.
Questions?
Email
sections@acrnet.org.
The
creation of the Section on Elder Decision-Making and Conflict
Resolution was unanimously approved by the ACR Board of Directors at
its July 2009 Board meeting.
The
mission of the Section is to advance the development, provision, and
use of high quality facilitated conflict resolution and
decision-making services by older persons, their families, public
and private service providers and others regarding the transitions
that may come with aging. Those transitions may involve caregiving,
estate planning and estate administration, guardianship decisions
and alternatives, health care, housing, insurance, end-of-life
planning and decision-making. The transitions may involve issues
related to consumer matters, neighbor conflicts, and other matters
not particular to older persons, but that may require appropriate
accommodations when an older person is involved.
The
Section will work to foster professional standards, ethics, training
and practice to promote the maximum effective participation of all
persons to achieve informed self-determination regardless of
possible age-related or other limitations of involved parties. It
also will work to address the potential of ageism or age
discrimination by any person (including the practitioner,
participants, and others) in the provision of such conflict
resolution and decision-making services.
“The formation of this Section demonstrates ACR’s interest in
responding to new areas of practice,” says ACR President James A.
Rosenstein. “The need for a home for specialists in elder conflict
resolution became clear to me recently when I received elder
mediation training. I learned there the additional
expertise required for even experienced mediators to be effective in
helping to resolve conflicts in which elderly persons are either
parties or their interests or rights would be affected by its
resolution.”
Rosenstein announced that the Section leaders will be Arline
Kardasis (arline@elderdecisions.com),
Carolyn J. Rodis (cjrodis@yahoo.com),
and Robert J. Rhudy (bobrhudy@yahoo.com).
A
Section meeting is being planned for the ACR Annual
Conference in Atlanta, October 7 – 10, 2009. Watch
for details in upcoming issues of the
ACR Update. To join this new Section, please go to
Member Center and log in. On the left sidebar, click on the link
“Add a Section,” and check the box for “Elder Decision-Making and
Conflict Resolution Section.” Alternatively, you may call the
Member Concierge Center at 202-464-9700, press option 2, and
the Membership concierge will help you. Questions also may be
e-mailed to sections@ACRnet.org.
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