Legal Assistance Program Service Standard 650-25-55
(Revised 7/1/19 ML #3552)
Legal assistance is legal advice and representation provided by attorneys to individuals 60 years of age or older throughout North Dakota.
Legal assistance casework must be provided within the following categories:
- Abuse.
- Age discrimination,
- Guardianship defense.
- Healthcare.
- Housing.
- Income.
- Long-term care must include:
- Nursing home, basic care, swing bed and assisted living transfer and discharge casework including payment issues.
- Selected nursing home Bill of Rights casework primarily related to admissions and discharges and least restrictive alternatives for clients who want to leave a facility.
- Neglect.
- Nutrition.
- Protective services must include:
- Health care directives casework.
- Health care public education presentations.
- Protective guardianship services.
- American Indian Probate Reform Act (AIPRA) wills.
- Utilities.
Priority for legal assistance must be given to older individuals:
- Residing in rural areas.
- With the greatest economic need (with particular attention to low-income older individuals including minorities with limited English proficiency).
- With the greatest social need (with particular attention to low-income older individuals including minorities with limited English proficiency).
- With severe disabilities.
- With limited English proficiency.
- With Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders with neurological and organic brain dysfunction and the caretakers of such individuals.
- At risk for institutional placement.
