Preserving personal autonomy for the elderly: Competency, guardianship and Alzheimer's disease

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Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Health Care Systems, The Wharton School, and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This article was prepared at the Wharton School and the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and was supported, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Professor Rosoff at University of Pennsylvania, 2211 Steinberg Hall/CC, Philadelphia, PA 19104.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.