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Age Concern's response to the Department of Health consultation on the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is crucial that the Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) service is available for a wider range of people than the Act currently states. The purpose of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate service will be to work in the interests of vulnerable people who lack capacity and who are facing important decisions about serious medical treatment and changes of residence, but have no-one else to represent and support them. It is critically important that the consultation process involves people for whom IMCA are intended, such as older people.