Decision making supported as the best form of aid to the person with Down Syndrome

Abstract

This article aims to identify what is the best civil procedure / instrument that applies to people with disabilities known as Down Syndrome, in which the person has only reduced capacities and not totally canceled for the construction of a civil life, based on the basic principle of the Dignity of the Human Person. In this way, support tools were sought for decision making - Curatela and Supported Decision Making - based on a research that followed the inductive methodology, citing several authors who discuss the proposed themes. Finally, the article analyzes which is the most appropriate civil instrument to be used by the holders of this specific Syndrome, based on all the collected material, from which the supported decision-making is extracted as a good way of helping people with disabilities called the Syndrome Down.