Part of the reason I went to law school was to learn to help people I know navigate the very confusing world of growing old. The Elderly Law Clinical gave me the chance to apply the knowledge I had acquired in my Law & Aging class to real-world situations faced by Philadelphia Seniors. To get the most out of the Clinical, taking Professor Kroll’s Law & Aging class is a critical prerequisite. The class gave me a basic understanding of many issues that came up in our discussions of client issues – social security and healthcare planning, long term care issues, etc. Additionally through our discussions in that class, I learned to think about issues specific to senior clients which, normally, I wouldn’t have considered. I would never have  thought about tuning the aesthetics of an office for aging eyes and ears, or for accessibility. Professor Kroll used real life examples to stress the importance of realizing who our client truly is, and the difficulty, yet critical importance, of assessing capacity. These discussions in the …