Students will understand basic interviewing and counseling skills and apply their skills by interviewing and counseling with clients at the senior centers.

Students will learn how to educate clients about the advantages and disadvantages of each basic type of estate planning tool.

Students will be able to prepare and execute a basic will on behalf of a client.

Students will understand common Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security issues faced by seniors.

Students will identify the ways in which seniors are exploited in consumer issues and students will learn how to educate seniors on how to protect themselves.

Students will learn how to advise seniors on common issues including property issues, nursing home issues, guardian and conservatorships and elder abuse.

Students will write letters of advice to clients under the direction of an attorney.

Students will learn the importance of documenting work with clients and following through on paperwork through the closing of a case.