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When the mind fails : a guide to dealing with incompetency /
Incompetency is loss of the ability to make, and act on, your own decisions and with the aging of North America's population, it is increasingly widespread. It can happen to anyone and many people want to plan for its possibility in order to ensure their own care and protection. Incompetency ca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 What is incompetency?
- Choosing one's residence
- Making a will
- Financial decisions
- Health-care decisions
- Powers of attorney
- Instructing a lawyer
- 2 Incompetency as a human problem
- Dealing with incompetent people
- Why care?
- Basic concepts
- 3 Assessing competency
- Ability to make a choice
- Task-specific competency
- Assessing the whole individual
- Caution in challenging competence
- Medical treatment and assessment
- 4 Informal competency assessment
- Questions to ask
- Assessing riskSummary
- Three informal assessments
- An outline of informal competency assessment
- 5 Formal competency assessment
- Basic concepts
- The formal assessment process
- Fairness
- Three competency assessments
- Common errors in competency assessment
- 6 Guardianship and other imposed care
- Guardianship
- Alternatives to guardianship
- An example of guardianship
- Summary
- 7 Planning for incompetency
- Planning for financial incompetency
- Wills
- Powers of attorney
- Advance directives: living wills
- General concerns in planning for substitute decision makingAssessing competency to perform legal acts: three examples
- Guidelines for designing plans for substitute decision making
- Conclusion
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
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