The article describes the 2017 ABA Resolution “urg[ing] courts to consider supported decision-making as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship” and “to consider available decision-making supports that would meet the individual’s needs as grounds for termination of a guardianship and restoration of rights” including how some judges have taken the lead in promoting SDM in their jurisdictions.
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