Legal Risk Detector

What is a Legal Risk Detector?

A legal health check-up tool designed to be used by social workers, medical personnel and other allied professionals to screen an older individual for risks of the following legal problems: housing, debt, health care, financial exploitation and elder abuse.

Why Should You Consider Using the Risk Detector?

The Risk Detector has many benefits: it identifies legal issues that your client may not realize he or she is facing; it provides the advocate with an assessment report that categorizes the client’s risk as “low,” “medium” or “high” as well as identifying red flag issues.

Access the Tool

The legal Risk Detector tool is coming soon. It is intended for adults aged 60 and older or adults with disabilities aged 18-59 living in Suburban Cook County. If this doesn’t apply to you, you can find legal information at https://www.legalaidchicago.org/

The Suburban Cook Adult Fatality Review Team examines deaths associated with suspected abuse and or neglect of persons aged 18-59 with a disability and older adults 60+ years old residing in a domestic setting.

The ADRC offers information to help older adults, caregivers and people with disabilities make decisions about care.