Mentally Incompetent Adults
Mentally incompetent adults include persons living with acute or chronic mental illness and people with age-related mental diseases such as Alzheimers or other forms of dementia. For these people, The Public Guardian and Trustee acts as Committee — this is a legal term that says The Public Guardian and Trustee must make financial and personal decisions for a person.
When The Public Guardian and Trustee is Committee, decisions may be made on behalf of a client including:
- administering personal finances
- giving consent to medical or psychiatric treatment
- providing legal representation
- making decisions about daily living on the person's behalf
- deciding where, and with whom, a person will live, either temporarily or permanently
