Person-Centered Approach

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A person-centered approach considers and involves the following:

  • Encouraging the individual under guardianship to participate, to the fullest extent possible, in decisions that affect them; including their care and services.
  • Providing the individual every opportunity to exercise their rights, as it relates to their care.
  • Providing for an individual’s needs using the least intrusive and least restrictive course of action possible.
  • After weighing risks and benefits, allowing maximum independence and self-determination possible by meeting the individual’s wishes.
  • Individualized decisions – what works for one individual, may not work for another.
  • Advocating for modification or termination of Guardianship when applicable.

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