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I want help with…
- What it means to lack capacity to make a decision
- Understanding the principles I need to apply
- Understanding the functional criteria
- Thinking about specific types of decision
- What I should do if I think that a person cannot make the decision
- Understanding how to use psychological and neuroscientific tests
- Understanding more about insight and capacity
- Recording my assessment
How to approach situations which seem challenging
- The situation seems risky to me
- I am finding it difficult to engage the person
- The person’s capacity seems to fluctuate
- The person seems to say one thing and to do another
- The person seems to be under the influence of someone else