Showing posts with label elder guardianship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elder guardianship. Show all posts

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Supported decision making - alternative to elder guardianship

For many years now, and especially after the taking into force of the CRPD - Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, there has been much debate around the need to develop the Supportive Decision Making Model as an alternative to existing guardianship regimes.
However, in real life there has been relatively little actual experience in this field.
A new report from Israel describes a new model for such supported decision making model, which can be a good starting point for further development of such services.
Here is the link to the full report:
http://bizchut.org.il/he/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Support-system-Model-Bizchut.pdf
Israeli Report

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Adult & Elder Guardianship Around the World

IGN - The International Guardianship Network has just published a wonderful and most helpful web interface that includes a global perspective on adult and elder guardianship legal regimes from countries around the world. This is an excellent tool to receive a broad and comparative perspective on this important field of elder law.
The web address is:

http://www.international-guardianship.com/guardianship.htm