Try: When an individual becomes mentally incapacitated or disabled someone needs to make decisions for the incapacitated individual however elderly individuals can have varying levels of capacity in these cases a limited guardian can be appointed in most states limited guardianship is a solution when the individual’s loss of capacity is less than complete incapacity the powers granted to the limited guardian are only those necessary to meet the needs of the individual if the incapacitated persons condition changes the guardian’s powers can be amended the goal of limited guardianship is to allow the elderly individual to retain some autonomy while also providing protection for the semi loss of capacity information references

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Keywords: Legal incapacity

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