When Your Employees Are Caring For Their Parents.

With people living longer comes the need to provide extra custodial and medical care for those individuals.  In large part, it has become the job of the adult children to take care of their aging parents – making sure their parents are safe and receive the companionship and medical attention they require.  And those adult children caring for their parents are your employees!   What do employees need and employers expect when it comes to dealing with these issues?

This course focuses on several aspects of elder care and elder law:
·         circumstances requiring custodial and medical care for seniors
·         services available to families when they need elder care
·         avoiding elder abuse
·         executing Powers of Attorney and Advance Directives for Health Care, and the risks of failing to do so
·         guardianship actions
·         wills, estate planning and estate administration
·         other legal tools available to families to assist the caregiving process
·         the impact this process is having on the Baby Boomer generation

This course will then address the growing need for employers to recognize and accommodate these issues as they affect the workplace:
·         anti-discrimination
·         flexible work hours and absenteeism
·         best policies and practices

The presenters are attorneys Leonard P. Pasculli and Janice D. Pasculli.  This husband and wife team are partners in the law firm of Hollander, Strelzik, Pasculli, Pasculli, Hinkes, Gacquin, Vandenberg& Hontz, LLC, in Newton, New Jersey. 

Mr. Pasculli specializes in business law and contracts, real estate, and elder law (which includes wills, estates, guardianships and Medicaid planning).  He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.  Just prior to joining the firm in March 2008, Mr. Pasculli was employed as a senior associate general counsel and vice president of human resources for Sequa Corporation, a multi-national Fortune 500 manufacturing company.  Mr. Pasculli holds a law degree from Fordham Law School and an MBA degree from Rutgers University.  He received his Bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University.  He is the President of the Sussex-Warren Human Resource Management Association, and the Chair of the Human Resource Development Committee of the Sussex County Chamber of Commerce.
Contact information:
(973) 383-3233 ext. 30
len.pasculli@embarqmail.com

Ms. Pasculli is certified as an Elder Law attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.  She has 23 years of experience as an elder law specialist.  Ms. Pasculli argued the seminal guardianship case titled In the Matter of M.R. before the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1994. Ms. Pasculli is a frequent lecturer on the subject of elder law and has been recognized for her assistance with Project Self-Sufficiency's legal education program.  Ms. Pasculli holds a law degree from Rutgers Law School and received her Bachelor’s degree from The Pennsylvania State University.  She is the immediate Past President of The Newton Rotary Club, and is a member of the local operating board of United Way of Northern New Jersey (Sussex County) and chairperson of its Communications Committee.
Contact information:
(973) 383-3233 ext. 20
janice.pasculli@embarqmail.com