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This kind of agreement is different than the Supported Decision-Making Agreement in that this kind of agreement appoints two or more people to make decisions on behalf of the dependent adult. The people who act under this kind of agreement are called representatives. Although the dependent adult is the one who appoints trusted friends or relatives as his or her representatives, the dependent adult is no longer the one making the decisions once the document is signed.

This kind of document can cover either the personal- and health-care decisions normally associated with guardianship or the financial decisions normally associated with trusteeship, or both. The document can and should be tailored to meet the needs of the dependent adult who is signing it. In this way, a dependent adult who only needs help with a certain kind of transaction, such as banking or investing, is not going to have unwanted help imposed on him or her for things he or she is perfectly capable of doing himself or herself, such as deciding where he or she is going to live.