Book chapter
Competency and Capacity in the Aging Adult
The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain, pp.723-741
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
04/18/2018
DOI: 10.1002/9781118772034.ch34
Abstract
This chapter is designed to assist the clinician faced with the issues to consider the broad range of capacities that may be of concern, the many cognitive and noncognitive factors that may compromise capacity, and assessment of capacity. After reviewing more basic issues regarding capacity, it focuses on factors that can make determination of capacity a particularly complex endeavor. Regarding diagnostic considerations in the assessment of capacity to live alone, dementia is obviously an especially impairing problem for many aging individuals. The chapter presents a case study of Peter. The story of Peter, based on an amalgam of actual individuals seen in the clinic, illustrates that questions of competency can be extraordinarily challenging. Early legal consideration of competency developed when the presumption that adults have the cognitive capacities necessary to make reasonable decisions regarding wills and disposition of their property, that is, “sound mind” or “testamentary capacity”, was called into question.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Competency and Capacity in the Aging Adult
- Creators
- Joseph Barrash
- Contributors
- Matthew Rizzo (Editor)Steven Anderson (Editor)Bernd Fritzsch (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain, pp.723-741
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118772034.ch34
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/18/2018
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biology; Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center; Center On Aging
- Record Identifier
- 9984066139302771
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