Laura Negrón, director of Vera’s Guardianship Project, and Julia Kaminsky, project analyst at the Guardianship Project, co-authored an article explaining the project’s innovative approach to guardianship services in New York City—an approach that is both “humane and cost effective,” allowing more incapacitated elderly and disabled New Yorkers to remain in their community rather than being placed in institutions.

(Originally published in Volume 21, Number 3 of the Elder and Special Needs Law Journal (Summer 2011), a publication of the Elder Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.)