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Decision-making and mental incapacity: practice issues for professionals
- Author:
- PENHALE Bridget
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 5(3), 1991, pp.186-193.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Distinguishes between permanently incapable people and those who have become incapacitated and discusses the conflict between "best interests" and "substituted judgment" and the application of these approaches.
Mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making: an overview
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Law Commission
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper giving an overview of the civil law relating to mental incapacity, the present procedures available for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated people, their shortcomings and some of the options for reform. Mentally handicapped people, elderly people with a mental infirmity, mentally ill people and brain damaged or physically ill or handicapped people are included.