A Clinician's Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law

ISBN-13: 9781911623243 / Miękka / 2023 / 150 str.

Ben (Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) Alders

Opis

A readable and practical guide to how the law applies to people with dementia, from diagnosis to end-of-life.

Spis treści

1. Dementia: the clinical and diagnostic context; 2. Dementia: The wider social and legal context; 3. Dementia: the legal framework; 4. The Mental Capacity Act 2005; 5. The Mental Health Act 1983; 6. The Care Act 2014; 7. Assessment of capacity; 8. The diagnosis of dementia: planning for the future; 9. Care and treatment issues and the law; 10. Deprivation of liberty; 11. Discharge from hospital; 12. Abuse and safeguarding; 13. The courts and tribunals; 14. The interface of dementia and the criminal justice system.