Blogs about: Mental Capacity Act
Featured Blog
The GJ judgement and DoLs
I’m coming back to Best Interests Assessments and DoLs for a while now so excuse my indulgence but it is something that has and is creeping back into my workload after a few ‘dormant’ months and a par… more →
Fighting Monsters
Exciting new offer for elderly residential care providers from AMJ
wrote 16 hours ago: The last few years have brought sweeping changes to the way that care providers are regulated and ne … more →
New Year 2010 special offer
wrote 2 weeks ago: Buy one and get one half price Or Buy two and get one free AMJ has developed a package of training s … more →
The GJ judgement and DoLs
— 10 comments
wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m coming back to Best Interests Assessments and DoLs for a while now so excuse my indulgence but i … more →
Best interests, dementia and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
wrote 4 weeks ago: Best interests, dementia and the Mental Capacity Act (2005), Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;35:733- … more →
Streamlined training for elderly care homes
— 1 comment
wrote 1 month ago: There have been many changes to the duty of care over the last few years and no sector has had to de … more →
Advance decision, advance directive or advance agreement?
wrote 1 month ago: During training today several participants repeatedly talked about ‘Advance Directives’ … more →
Restriction and deprivation of liberty: A European perspective
— 2 comments
wrote 1 month ago: The difference between restriction and deprivation of liberty really isn’t so clear as we might like … more →
An interesting blog to visit
— 4 comments
wrote 1 month ago: A social worker friend of mine has just pointed me to this blog: http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/ … more →
Advance Decisions to refuse medical treatment
wrote 2 months ago: An Advance Decision (AD) allows people to express their views clearly, before they lose capacity. It … more →
Understanding the duty of care and the right to liberty in residential care settings part 4
wrote 2 months ago: This article applies to residential care settings in England & Wales In this fourth article in … more →
Capacity to die
— 8 comments
wrote 3 months ago: This story from the Telegraph today gave me food for thought. Kerrie Wooltorton, age 26, had a histo … more →
Revisiting Best Interests Assessments
— 11 comments
wrote 3 months ago: Last week, I carried out a Best Interests Assessment for a man whom I had first assessed six months … more →
Choice
— 11 comments
wrote 3 months ago: We have been taught and trained to regard choice and individuality, quite rightly, very highly. Choi … more →
Mental Capacity Act seminar audio programmes
wrote 7 months ago: Free Audio presentations of MCA seminars. Care providers, relatives and service users in England … more →
My First Best Interests Assessment
— 4 comments
wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I completed my first Best Interests Assessment since the relatively new Deprivation of Lib … more →
Assessing Liberty
— 4 comments
wrote 8 months ago: Two weeks tomorrow, the Deprivation of Liberties Safeguards went live. As of this week, my borough … more →
Deprivation of liberty safeguards leaflet
wrote 9 months ago: Deprivation of liberty safeguards leaflet. The Department of Health has published easy read version … more →
Mental Capacity Act 2005
wrote 9 months ago: LAC (DH) 2009 ( 2 ): The Mental Capacity Act 2005, resources available for the year 2009-2010 has be … more →
Compulsion
— 5 comments
wrote 10 months ago: The big difference between the work I am doing now and the work I was doing 18 months ago is the rol … more →
