Reports

Informed policy begins with informed insight.
This collection of reports reflects over a decade of research, evaluation, and policy analysis by the Guardianship Policy Institute and its partners. From system-wide assessments to legislative proposals and program reviews, these publications are designed to guide reform and improve outcomes for individuals with unmet decisional support needs. Each report is available to read online or download in full.

Report On Public Guardianship

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.

Read the Ten-Year Review

Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute Annual Report 2019-2020

Read the 2019-2020 Report

Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute Report 2018-2019

Read the 2018-2019 Report

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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.