City: Santa Fe, NM

Category: Retirement

Telephone: (505) 995-8333

Address: 3 Chamisa Dr. North, Suite 5

Description: Based near Eldorado, this new family-run company provides guardianship services (making health-care and placement decisions) and conservatorship services (making financial decisions) for mentally incapacitated people in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Los Alamos, and Las Vegas. It also manages trusts too small for a bank to handle and can serve as durable power of attorney, in which you assign someone to make health-care decisions for you, and other advanced directives, including living wills. Many of its clients are senior citizens who are unable to make life decisions for themselves. The company also offers workshops and seminars on guardianship and related issues through the Guardian Angels Foundation. The company’s executive manager, Janice Ladnier, has more than 20 years’ experience as a paralegal and is an experienced care manager and patient advocate. She is a professional licensed clinical counselor, a certified grief counselor, an experienced Master National Guardian, conservator, and court visitor. Her daughter, Angela Melton, serves as operations manager and is a National Certified Guardian, office manager, bookkeeper, notary public, and associate care manager. Guardian Angels also offers hands-on care management services for clients who need assistance in the home following a hospital stay or more long-term assistance. For care management, call the sister company Guardian Angels Personal Care (see entry under Home Health Care and Hospice).