Antibiotic Guardianship

The C.A.M.W. Guardianship Scheme

an increase of 188 cases during the year 1929." On the same date there were 1,327 defectives on licence from Institutions. The development, therefore, of this form of care during the intervening years has been steady, and is progressing, partly owing to the continued delay in the provision of institutional accommodation, and more particularly owing to its proved value. The Guardianship Society ...

Guardianship: an alternative to "I'm sorry".

Guardianship determinations by judges, attorneys, and guardians.

Guardianship is intended to protect incapacitated individuals through the appointment of a surrogate decision maker. Little is known about how judges, attorneys, and professional guardians assess the need for guardianship, to what extent they apply statutory guidelines when making these determinations, and how their decisions compare. Three groups of participants (probate judges, elder law atto...

Preserving rights for individuals facing guardianship.

Medical certification of incapacity in guardianship applications: conceptualising capacity.

Aims and method To examine how capacity is recorded in practice and compare this with the statutory definition, medical reports accompanying a random 10% sample (183 applications; 360 reports) of guardianship applications granted in 2011-2012 were examined. Results Clinicians did not explicitly use the statutory definition of capacity in 47.5% of reports. Over half of applications (56.4%) did n...