 TITLE: What Is a Conservatorship? CONTENT: Types of Conservatorships\n-------------------------\nNot all conservatorships are the same. Here are the different types of conservatorships.\n*   **General conservatorship**: A general conservatorship covers an adult who can't take care of their finances or themselves. Oftentimes, this kind of conservatorship applies to elderly people, such as those with Alzheimer's disease. It also may include people affected by conditions like stroke, coma and mental illness.\n*   **Limited conservatorship**: Through this arrangement, similar to a general conservatorship, a conservator oversees the finances and care of an adult with developmental disabilities.\n*   **Financial conservatorship**: Under a financial conservatorship, a judge appoints a person or entity to oversee financial matters for someone who's determined to be incapicated.\n*   **Physical conservatorship**: A physical conservatorship enables someone to make health care decisions on behalf of a conservatee, and take care of needs such as food, clothing and housing.\n*   **Permanent conservatorship**: A permanent conservatorship typically protects a person who has experienced a severe decline in physical or mental capabilities. Normally, the conservatee in this situation suffers from permanently impaired mental functions due to conditions like Alzheimer's disease and dementia.\n*   **Temporary conservatorship**: A temporary conservatorship aims to protect people in jeopardy of doing harm to themselves or others. It allows a conservator to assume control of a person's health care and financial decisions on a short-term basis.\n*   **Individual conservatorship**: Under an individual conservatorship, one person or a group of people takes care of a conservatee's needs.\n*   **Organizational conservatorship**: This type of conservatorship is common in the business world, enabling a group or company to keep another group or company out of financial trouble. END