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 ...

Focusing on older adults’ mental and physical capacities could be more effective than disease management in promoting healthy aging, according to the results of a new study. Researchers from Peking ...

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 ...

When should mental capacity be assessed in a person with dementia? You must always assume that a person is able to make a decision for themselves, until it is proved that they can’t. A person’s ...

Delayed hospital discharge for people with learning disabilities is often framed as a systems problem. We talk about bed pressures, lack of suitable placements, legal delays and stretched resources.

This study explored what Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs) can tell us about how to improve adult safeguarding in England, with a focus on mental capacity and self-neglect. Six Safeguarding Adults ...