Evaluating Decision Making Capacity in Older Individuals: Does the Law Give a Clue?
Adequate cognitive and emotional capacity is essential to autonomous decision making by adult medical patients. Society often attaches legal consequences to decisional capacity evaluations. Even when the legal system is not formally involved in the competency evaluation of a particular individual, c...
Main Author: | Marshall B. Kapp |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2015-05-01
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Series: | Laws |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/4/2/164 |
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