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Development of an adaptive, personalized, and scalable dementia care program: Early findings from the Care Ecosystem

Decision-making capacity  and frontal lobe dysfunction

The effects of regulation and litigation on a large for-profit nursing home chain

The Need for Medical-Legal Dialogue in Care of Older Adults

Improving the Civil Legal Response to Elder Financial Abuse: Making the Law Matter

Lost in translation: the unintended consequences of advance directive law on clinical care.

Health Law: Research Compliance & Ethics

Elder Law & Policy

Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors

Sarah Hooper is the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law.  Through the Consortium, she develops interprofessional programs for faculty and students, including educational curricula and degrees, joint research, and clinical training and service programs.  In particular, Sarah led the Consortium’s effort to establish the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors clinic (MLPS) and now as its Policy Director is working to scale the model locally and nationally.  

Sarah’s research focuses on legal issues in aging and dementia care, including health care decision making and informed consent, capacity, elder financial abuse, the link between health and access to civil justice, and models of comprehensive and coordinated care. She is a 2018 Leaders for Health Equity Fellow with George Washington University.

Sarah teaches or has taught "Elder Law & Policy," “Law of End of Life Care,” “Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Seminar,” “Concentration in Law & Health Science Seminar,” "Health Law: Research Compliance & Ethics" and “Master of Studies in Law for Healthcare Providers Seminar” at UC Hastings and is a frequent guest lecturer at UCSF.

Health Equity

Health Law

Comprehensive and Coordinated Care

Health and Access to Civil Justice

Elder Financial Abuse

Capacity

Informed Consent

Health Care Decision Making

Legal Issues in Aging and Dementia Care

UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

Leaders for Health Equity Fellows

Medical Legal Practice Clinics for Seniors

California Readies for Aid-in-Dying Law to Take Effect

The Doctor’s New Prescription: A Lawyer

Aid-In-Dying: Not So Easy

Explanation of the Law

Medical Legal Partnership Helps Senior Veterans

'Silent Crime' -- Defrauding Elders Grows in Ethnic Communities

Leaders in Health Equity Fellowship

Advancing Legal and  Medical Collaboration in Advance Care Planning

Optimizing Aging: A National Geriatrics Workforce Model to Secure the Safety Net for Underserved Seniors

Integration of Easy-to-Read, Culturally-Appropriate, Evidence-Based Advance Directives for All US States Into the PREPARE Website

The UCSF and UNMC Dementia Care Ecosystem: Using Innovative  Technologies to Personalize and Deliver Coordinated Dementia Care

Executive Director of UCSF / UC Hastings Consortium and Adjunct Professor

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