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Supported Decision-Making as a Foundation for Alternatives to Guardianship

Experts agree that self-determination is critical for individuals with disabilities to lead more fulfilled lives. Controlling one's own life is important throughout the aging process as people strive toward independence and positive personal, educational, and career outcomes. As youth move towards adulthood, it is important for them to be as involved as possible in decisions that affect them, especially when they reach age of majority. Supported decision-making presumes that all individuals have both the capacity and the right to make decisions and to be actively involved in all decision-making processes about their lives.  

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Guardianship and Alternatives for Decision-Making Support

For a youth or young adult who has intellectual disabilities, his or her health care transition often raises questions about guardianship for health care providers and families. This brief provides an overview of guardianship and other decision-making supports as well as resources that will provide more in-depth information.
  
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Supported Decision Making for Transition Age Youth

Any person over the age of 18 is legally an adult, and is presumed to be able to manage his or her own financial affairs, choose where to live, consent to medical treatment, vote, make contracts, marry, and exercise his or her own legal rights as an adult. When a person is unable to do some or all of these, some form of supported decision making is needed.

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Getting Ready for Independent Living at the Age of Majority

When youth with disabilities reach the "age of majority," they gain the right to manage their own affairs, including where they will live and what they will do. This tip sheet considers steps that parents and others can take to help youth with disabilities learn and practice the basic skills that they will benefit from in the future.

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