SeniorLAW Center’s Roxane Crowley, a previous recipient of an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellowship, was awarded a Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging Fellowship.  This is one of only two Fellowships awarded by the Borchard Foundation Center on Law & Aging in 2009-2010.  The fellowship project, THE HOSPICE AND HOME CARE LEGAL PROJECT, will strengthen the relationship between the medical and legal eldercare communities The project led by Ms. Crowley will strengthen relationships between the medical and legal care communities in the 5-county region of Southeastern Pennsylvania and increase the quality of life of chronically ill seniors and seniors at the end of life by facilitating their access to legal services.  Partnering with physicians, nurses, social workers and home health aids, SeniorLAW Center will work to determine misconceptions and areas for basic education among the medical community, survey providers, and develop training and direct service responses, with statewide dissemination.

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