Supported Decision Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices

Published: May 2015


This article introduces Supported Decision-Making, an alternative to guardianship where people make their own decisions, without a guardian, while receiving the help they need and want to do so.
Supported Decision-Making protects and enhances the “principal prerogative all people have to make their own decisions and direct their own lives to the maximum of their abilities” and can improve life outcomes like health, independence, safety, and employment.

Author: Jonathan G. Martinis
Organisation: Bifocal


Format: PDF
Pages: 4
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