Today, Your Legal Corner provides an overview regarding mental capacity assessment. How actions are perceived by others is worth reviewing. If I run to the hair salon in yesterday’s clothes without ...

The process of assessing a person’s mental capacity is often misunderstood by social care practitioners as they seek to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the lessons from ...

NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...

Service-bridging mechanism reduces referral wait times and improves symptoms in older adults with mild to moderate depression.

A council has been ordered to cut delays in mental capacity assessments after a complaint was upheld by the social care ombudsman. Southampton City Council was found to be at fault after a complaint ...

Within the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental capacity means the ability to make a decision. A person's capacity to make a decision can be affected by a range of factors such as a stroke, ...