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When older adults are thought to no longer be able to make decisions for themselves, physicians may be asked to determine decisional capacity and assist in the application for guardianship. Guardianship can be a long, expensive, and confusing process. This chapter explores in detail the process of assessing decisional capacity, application for guardianship, and the disadvantages/limitations of guardianships. In addition, this chapter also highlights alternatives to guardianship.

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  1. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Nery A. Diaz

  2. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Nery A. Diaz

  3. Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Reema D. Mehta

  4. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    Reema D. Mehta

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  1. New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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  2. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Aarti Gupta

  3. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Rajesh R. Tampi

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Diaz, N.A., Mehta, R.D. (2019). Guardianship. In: Balasubramaniam, M., Gupta, A., Tampi, R. (eds) Psychiatric Ethics in Late-Life Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15172-0_10

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