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The Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute promotes best practices in adult guardianship and supported decision-making through research, public education, direct service, and cross-sector collaboration.

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Ten-Year Review and Recommendations of the Institute, presenting insights, discoveries, models and cost data gathered by the Institute over its first ten years, along with recommendations for Massachusetts to address today's crisis in guardianship.

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2 While both “unbefriended” and “unrepresented” are commonly used to refer to the population of concern to the Institute, we use the latter in this Report, as being more technically correct and less distracting than the other, more emotive term. In using the term, we do not intend to imply anything about legal representation.

1 Moye, J., et al., Ethical Concerns and Procedure Pathways for Patients Who are Incapacitated and Alone, HEC Forum DOI 10.1007/s10730‐016‐9317‐9 (published online), p. 4 (Jan. 13, 2017.