Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults

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Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology, Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessment and Intervention helps to familiarize you with the legal and social contexts for decision making in potentially impaired individuals. Editors Sara Qualls and Michael Smyer have brought together a notable team of international contributors to provide you with a unique framework of the legal, social, and psychological approaches to assessing the ability of older adults to make decisions.

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"This particular and unique text expands on a conference held to train mental health professionals about assessments and interventions for decision-making capacity. What has emerged is a book that will benefit mental health professionals and clinicians with limited experience in assessing such capacity. Specifically, the content improves understanding of the complex and multidimensional issues within decision-making capacity; describes how to conduct evaluations of individuals with cognitive impairment; details possible interventions that can help maintain an individual's independence; and describes the intersection these evaluations might have within the legal system. Given the myriad issues that may arise in a capacity evaluation, Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessment and Intervention effectively provides general principles and guidelines that will allow health professionals to implement well-constructed assessments and reasonable interventions--to effectively collaborate with families, clinicians, and professionals within the legal system addressing the broad range of questions related to decision-making capacity." (Journal of American Medical Association, February 18, 2009)"Given the myriad issues that may arise in a capacity evaluation,Changes in Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: Assessmentand Intervention effectively provides general principles andguidelines that will allow health professionals to implementwell-constructed assessments and reasonable interventions--toeffectively collaborate with families, clinicians, andprofessionals within the legal system addressing the broad range ofquestions related to decision-making capacity." -Leslie K. Ross, PhD, School of Nursing, Institute forHealth & Aging, University of California, San Francisco, JAMA
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