The area of Financial Gerontology, financial planning for the elderly generation, is an area that encompasses many legal and ethical issues. Professional duties, legal duties, and duties to the client, may all call for different routes to be taken in certain situations that may arise. Two articles that I have read that have been written on these issues are "Legal and Ethical Issues in Financial Gerontology," by Laura Addington, Sandra Reynolds, and Ronald Duska; and "Ethical Long-Term Care Planning: Applying the Society's Code," written by Keith Moeller, and David Christopherson.

The main issue that is being brought up in both articles is how to apply an ethical code to situations that frequently arise in the area of financial planning for the elderly. These articles are intended for and audience of financial planning professionals, and the authors of both articles have succeeded in writing appropriately for this audience. Professional...