10 Tips for Guardians

The National Center on Law & Elder Rights recently published 10 Tips for Guardians of Older Adults.  Here are the tips

1. Maintain separate financial accounts...
2.  Keep detailed records»Save receipts for everything you can, and write every expenditure or decision down....
3. Only use the persons’ money and property for their benefit....
4. File timely reports...
5. Regularly talk with the person....
6. Spend time together....
7. Provide social contact....
8. Remember the dignity in choice....
9. Safeguard the person’s rights....
10. Reassess the Need to Continue the Guardianship....

The explanations for the tips and additional resources are available here.