Understanding and addressing voices of adults with disabilities within their family caregiving contexts : implications for capacity, decision-making and guardianship legal capacity, decision-making and guardianship / commissioned by the Law Commission of

"This paper commissioned by the Law Commission of Ontario is rooted in concern that focusing on caregivers, while important, shifts attention away Understanding and Addressing Voices of Adults With Disabilities Within Their Family Caregiving Contexts Commissioned by the Law Commission of Ontario 3 January 2014 from the perspectives of adults with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate whether, how and to what extent voices of adults with disabilities are "heard" within their family caregiving contexts and to discuss the implications of this for legal principles of capacity, decision-making and guardianship in relation to adults with disabilities." -- Introduction.

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"This paper commissioned by the Law Commission of Ontario is rooted in concern that focusing on caregivers, while important, shifts attention away Understanding and Addressing Voices of Adults With Disabilities Within Their Family Caregiving Contexts Commissioned by the Law Commission of Ontario 3 January 2014 from the perspectives of adults with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate whether, how and to what extent voices of adults with disabilities are "heard" within their family caregiving contexts and to discuss the implications of this for legal principles of capacity, decision-making and guardianship in relation to adults with disabilities." -- Introduction.

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