Try: When an individual becomes mentally incapacitated or disabled someone needs to make decisions for the incapacitated individual guardianship refers to the legal process for placing a decision maker in control for the mentally incapacitated person state law varies whether guardianship refers to decision making over the person’s health decisions and property however it is fairly simple to establish whether the guardian has control over the person or property or both generally guardianship is an involuntary action done to protect the incapacitated individual there are multiple alternatives to guardianship however these alternatives often have to be pre-planned before the individual loses capacity appointment of a guardian is often necessary when no pre-planning has occurred information references

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Keywords: Capacity legal medical decisions

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