Conservator vs case manager?

When a person is under conservatorship, they may have a conservator who serves as the figurehead, but the decisions tend to be made for them by their case manager. A case manager is a person who supervises the conservatee's treatment in a facility. A conservatee is assigned one whenever they enter a facility. This case manager helps decide where they will go, what programs they will be involved in, how much contact they are allowed, meet with their psychiatrist and hear their recommendations. The case manager may fax out reports to the public conservator if a status reported is needed, but often the two do not meet often. The pubic conservator may request treatment notes for any review hearing. In practice the conservator should visit the conservatee once a month in the facility but due to lack of funds the conservator falls short and may phone in or obtain notes from the case worker to add to the public conservator's file.. The public conservator is paperwork and a case manager is more direct contact with the conservatee. It comes down to budgeting. Just putting it out there so people do not expect too much from the public conservator. The public conservator worker tend to have around 60+ conservatees so not much room for attention.