Below are links to more information and resources specifically about planning for the future:
Legal Information and Resources
- Videos and info sheets about planning ahead, including about
- Alberta’s Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act
- preparing legal documents (Wills, Personal Directives and Enduring Powers of Attorney)
- dealing with estates, including grants of probate and beneficiaries
- mental capacity
- Medical Assistance in Dying
- Legal Info for Senior Albertans tool provides information on how to identify, prevent and deal with elder abuse.
- Info sheets on elder abuse and the law, including on mental incapacity and planning ahead.
Some of the above resources are also available in French and Somali.
- List of legal clinics and services in Alberta (on LawCentral – a CPLEA website)
- Law Society of Alberta Lawyer Directory – help finding a lawyer
Government & Court Services
- Alberta Supports (for help accessing more than 30 programs and 120 community services)
- Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (services and support for vulnerable Albertans and their families)
- Resolution and Court Administration Services (RCAS) (resolution and court support services across Alberta)
- Alberta Courts