The Vermont Ethics Network website contains information and resources on advance directives, health care decision making, and current topics related to health care ethics, end-of-life care, palliative care and pain management....

The National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) is a national non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization with members in all fifty states.  Formed in 1989, the goal of NAPSA is to provide Adult Protective Services (APS) programs a forum for sharing information, solving problems, and improving the quality of services for...

Health advocacy encompasses direct service to the individual or family as well as activities that promote health and access to health care in communities and the larger public. Advocates support and promote the rights of the patient in the health care arena, help build capacity to improve community health and enhance health policy initiatives focused on available, safe and quality care....

Victoria (Tori) Lloyd, Esq. has spent years fighting against financial or property thefts of vulnerable adults as an investigator for Adult Protective Services in Vermont. In 2011, she created the Financial Abuse Specialest Team of Vermont to bring together public and private stakeholders to prevent and mitigate financial exploitation. Through...

A guardian is a person with the legal responsibility to protect the well-being and rights of another. A guardian also has authority to make certain legal decisions for the person. Parents are deemed to be the guardians of their biological children under age 18. A parent who adopts a child becomes...