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NATIONAL EFFORTS TO REFORM GUARDIANSHIP

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The Rhode Island Special Task Force has initiated significant reforms in guardianship to protect vulnerable adults from elder abuse and financial exploitation. With many states lacking timely updates to their guardianship laws, Rhode Island's last major revision was in 1992. This task force focuses on creating less restrictive alternatives, increasing accountability for guardians, and enhancing collaboration among stakeholders. Recognizing trends in person-centered approaches, the task force also advocates for better funding, education, and data collection to prevent further exploitation as the elderly population grows.

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  1. National Efforts to Reform Guardianship Rhode Island Special Task force to Study Elderly Abuse and Financial Exploitation March 6, 2019 Presented by: Diana Noel, MPA Senior Legislative Representative

  2. Why Guardianship Reform • Recent articles have spotlighted many holes in state systems that failed vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation • Sixteen states haven’t had a revision since the 1980’s or earlier. • Rhode Island’s last major revision was in 1992. • People are living longer and there will be more people in a system that it’s not prepared to handle

  3. Common Issues Across States • Caregiving • Funding for Public Guardianship • Elder Abuse/Financial Exploitation • Guardian Accountability and Court Monitoring • Individual Rights • Less Restrictive Alternatives to Guardianship • Lack of Good and Consistent Data

  4. Challenges to Lasting Guardianship Reform • Increasing Need but Lack of Resources • Disconnect between policy and practice • Stakeholder Silos • Staffing and Turnover • Complexity of Cases

  5. Reform Trends • Individuals, their family and friends are speaking up! • Person-centered approach • Alternatives to guardianship • Standards and training for ALL guardians • Increase in education and outreach • Monitoring reforms to prevent abuse/exploitation • More collaboration/taskforces/ multidisciplinary teams (ex. WINGS) • State courts are taking on a more active role • Increase in federal involvement/possible assistance to states

  6. Examples • Connecticut: • 2017: SB 967 requires standard of practice for conservators; also authorizes probate court administrator to conduct random audits of conservator accounts • created an online training module for family and professional conservators • Nevada: • 2017: Supreme Court created the Permanent Guardianship Commission • 2017: enacted legislation to create Guardianship Compliance Office • 2018: GCO created a toll-free guardianship hotline • Texas: • First state to enacted supported decision making agreement as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship (2015, 2017) • Guardianship Compliance Project http://www.txcourts.gov/programs-services/guardianship-compliance-project/ • AARP Texas and Texas Appleseed: “Managing Someone Else’s Money in Texas”

  7. Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act (UGCOPAA) • Approved by Uniform law Commission in July 2017 • 2018: Enacted in Maine and certain sections in New Mexico • Currently pending in Montana, Utah and Washington

  8. Considerations for Rhode Island • Update terminology • Old: ward, alleged incapacitated person, incapacitated person • New: adult, respondent, adult subject to guardianship/conservatorship • Define less restrictive alternatives, like supported decision making agreements • Enacted in Alaska (2018), Delaware (2016), DC (2018), Texas (2015), Wisconsin (2018) • Currently pending in Kansas, Indiana and Rhode Island • Create a WINGS • Legislation in Montana and Kentucky • Can help to identify Rhode Island specific needs