Free Zoom Series for Dementia Providers, Caregivers and Legal Professionals

Working Together to Empower and Protect

Persons Living with Dementia

PART 1: Wednesday, January 20, 10-11:30am

Using Decision Supports to Engage and Empower

Persons Living with Dementia

Overview of Dementia and its Causes; the Importance of an Early and Accurate Diagnosis;

Protecting the Rights of a Person with Dementia; Supported Decision-Making; Balancing

Empowerment and the Progressive Nature of Dementia

PART 2: Wednesday, February 3, 10-11:30am

Adult Abuse: Risks for Persons Living with Dementia

COVID-19 and Abuse; Types of Abuse (financial abuse and exploitation, emotional/psychological,

neglect/self-neglect, sexual, warning signs); Adult Protective Services; Elder Justice Act; Resources

and Training; Hawaii laws, statutes and definitions

Please register for one or both sessions at this Eventbrite link

For questions or help with registering, contact Jody Mishan,

(808) 295-2624 or at jmishan@hawaii.rr.com

Sorry, no CEs are available,

but a Certificate of Attendance will be provided to those who need it.

This series is made possible by a grant to Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi from the Administration on Community

Living/Administration on Aging for the Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative

DAVID GODFREY, J.D.

Senior Attorney

American Bar Association, Commission on Law and Aging (ABA)

Presenter on January 20 and February 3, 2021

David Godfrey is a senior attorney at the ABA Commission on Law and Aging in Washington DC.

He is responsible for the ABA’s role in the Administration on Aging funded National Center on Law and

Elder Rights. Prior to joining the Commission, he was responsible for elder law programming at the

Access to Justice Foundation in Kentucky and served as a consultant trainer for the AARP Foundation.

He does research and training on legal issues in aging, with a focus on planning for incapacity,

understanding legal capacity, elder abuse prevention, intervention and remediation, decision supports,

legal ethics, and guardianship reform. He has prepared and presented training in 31 states and

internationally.

He is a former board member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys – and was named a Fellow

of the Academy in 2019. He serves on the advisory council for Dementia Friendly America. He has been

a volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association, hospice and numerous community service agencies. He has

reviewed contract or grant proposal for the Administration for Community Living.

His interest in helping persons and families living with dementia started as a family caregiver first for a

grandfather, then grandmother, and later with his own mother.

Mr. Godfrey earned his B.A. with honors at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and his J.D. cum laude

from the University of Louisville School of Law in Kentucky. He is licensed to practice law in Kentucky

and is a licensed real estate broker in Florida.