Guardianships: Collaboration Needed to Protect Incapacitated Elderly People

July 2004 Guardianships: Collaboration Needed to Protect Incapacitated Elderly People All states have laws requiring courts to oversee guardianships, but court implementation varies. Most require guardians to submit periodic reports but do not specify court review of these reports. Interstate jurisdictional issues sometimes arise when states do not recognize guardianships originating in other states. Most courts responding to our survey did not track the number of active guardianships, and few indicated the number of incapacitated elderly people under guardianship . . .