Aid to Capacity Evaluation

Introduction

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Procedure

assesses

• Ability to understand or appreciate
  • medical problem
  • proposed treatment
  • alternatives to proposed treatment
  • option of refusing proposed treatment (including withholding or withdrawing treatment)
  • reasonable foreseeable consequences of accepting proposed treatment
  • reasonably foreseeable consequences of refusing proposed treatment (including withholding or withdrawing proposed treatment)
• Psychiatric confounders
  • The person's decision is affected by depression
  • The person's Decision is affected by delusions/psychosis

More general terms

• assessment of decisional capacity