Category: Elder

Professionals in their 50s often experience workplace conflict as something fundamentally different than they did earlier in their careers. Disagreement...

Mediate.info is your trusted source for understanding and navigating the world of conflict resolution. Whether you’re dealing with a family disagreement,...

Deciding between home care and assisted living is one of the most emotionally charged decisions families face when caring for...

Reflective Practice: In Their Voices Video Conversation Project For more information on this project and on Reflective Practice generally, see...

In this episode, Michael and Karen interview Lara Traum. Lara is an attorney and mediator in private practice, offering assistance...

Encourage Early-Stage Mediation to Build Your Practice and Help Families. For those attorneys who thrive only when they are enmeshed...

As a HR and ADA Facilitator and author of Making It Work, I have found that mediating disability/medical related issues...

Pensions have almost become a benefit of the past, having been replaced by 401(k) plans.  However, they still exist for...

Elder Frustration The term “elder frustration” is used to describe frustration that adult children, caregivers and sometimes professionals experience when...

A “gray divorce” occurs when a senior couple ends their marriage after years or decades of togetherness. Also called a...

The Online Mediation Family and Elder Committee consisted of the following members: Chair: Susan Guthrie Members: Michael Aurit, Gabrielle Hartley,...

How to get parents on the same page - Even in the middle of divorce Divorce can be tough on...

The Second Forum of the Online Mediation Training Task Force took place April 30 and centered directly on new and emerging issues of...

Mediation and Business Consulting by Kathleen Kauth.Talking about end of life wishes is never fun, and seldom easy.  In light...

As I work with more “grey divorce” couples, I’m finding that there may be an overlooked asset that needs to...

As couples reach the age of 62 they begin the process of determining whether to take early retirement or wait...

Montana Nursing Homes and Families Receive Assistance to Resolve Disputes about Discharge Notices Through a Grant from Centers for Medicare...

In 1966 and 1967 when I was twenty-two years old, I did a two-year stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer...

When it comes to discussing end of life issues, very rarely are all members of families on the same page. ...

Disputing Blog by Karl Bayer, Victoria VanBuren, and Holly HayesThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a...

Once upon a time, people who grew old (or older) together, even if unhappy in their marriage, did not consider...

In 2008, Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., the parent company of Mediate.com, proudly published Peter Adler’s "Eye of the Storm Leadership:...

The aging of a family member is an inevitable process, and families hope that their aging parent or grandparent will...

Recently I mediated a case involving consolidated actions for collection of hospital bills and alleged fraudulent conveyance of real properties. ...

There is an on-going need for disability mediation in the civil, commercial, workplace and family context, as there remains a...

In 2008, Resourceful Internet Solutions, Inc., the parent company of Mediate.com, proudly published Peter Adler’s "Eye of the Storm Leadership:...

This is the complete interview by Robert Benjamin with Jay Folberg, filmed as part of Mediate.com's "The Mediators: Views from...

When the natural parents of a minor are deceased or become otherwise incapable of caring for their child, the issue...

Your parent died a few months ago. That, in and of itself, is tragic enough. You’re neck deep in the...

Special thanks to JAMS and Editor Richard Birke for their gracious permission to reprint this article which was originally published...