Mentally Incompetent Adults

Mentally incompetent adults include persons living with acute or chronic mental illness and people with age-related mental diseases such as Alzheimers or other forms of dementia. For these people, The Public Trustee acts as Committee — this is a legal term that says The Public Trustee must make financial and personal decisions for a person.

When The Public Trustee is Committee, decisions may be made on behalf of a client including:

• administering personal finances
• giving consent to medical or psychiatric treatment
• providing legal representation
• making decisions about daily living on the person's behalf
• deciding where, and with whom, a person will live, either temporarily or permanently