James, Vaughn E.2016-03-302016-03-302012Vaughn E. James, No Help for the Helpless: How the Law has Failed to Serve and Protect Persons Suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, 7 J. Health & Biomed. L. 407 (2012).http://hdl.handle.net/10601/2196This Article will discuss three areas in which the law is failing Alzheimer's patients: guardianship, tort law, and due process protections in court proceedings. The Article is divided into five parts. Part II will discuss dementia in general and Alzheimer's disease in particular, including the causes of the disease, its symptoms, and its manifestations. Part III will discuss three areas of the law that do not adequately serve and protect Americans who have become vulnerable because of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. This part will first discuss the shortcomings of guardianship law, then move on to tort law and, finally, due process protections in court proceedings. Part IV will propose solutions to the problem. Should the legal system adopt these solutions, the law would finally be able to adequately serve and protect Alzheimer's patients. As this Part will indicate, the reform needed is not necessarily in the written law, but in the agents - lawyers, judges and court officials - who enforce the law. Part V, the Conclusion, will propose that the medical and legal fraternities combine forces to help the law better serve and protect America's most vulnerable citizens.en-USAlzheimer'sguardianshiptort lawdue processAlzheimer's diseaseArticle