Diminished Capacity - Psychiatrist Guide for Estate Planning Professionals
Diminishing Capacity in the Elderly: A Geriatric Psychiatrist's Guide for Lawyers and Financial Professionals. Dr. Aazaz Haq, a highly qualified psychiatrist will lead the group in an eye opening discussion of diminished capacity from a medical point of view.
Aazaz Haq, MD, is a psychiatrist with certifications from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both geriatric psychiatry and general adult psychiatry. Dr. Haq completed his undergraduate education, medical school, and residency training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He subsequently completed a two-year advanced fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at UCLA. He is currently an attending geriatric psychiatrist at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital and an affiliated clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He has previously worked for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Elderly Adult Division, where he performed home-based treatment for homebound elderly with serious psychiatric illness, in addition to the Panorama Garden Nursing Homes. His private practice, Bay Forensic Geropsychiatry, specializes in the medico-legal psychiatric evaluations of the elderly.