Evaluating decision making capacity takes time. Read how a grieving and recuperating mother was excluded from her NCAT hearing because she was unable to hear what was happening and how Autonomy First was able to work with her solicitor to help protect her will and preference.
A mother changed her will to leave her entire estate to a male carer she had known for just a few months. Read what happened when Autonomy First’s Michael Perkins and Dr Jane Lonie helped the solicitor acting for her daughter with specialist advice on decision making capacity…
What is a clinical neuropsychologist and how can they help with supported decision making? Dr Jane Lonie, consultant clinical neuropsychologist, expert witness, author and educator, shares her insights on the assessment and management of cognitive dysfunction in adults.
We were contacted by a new client this week. His long-term family solicitor had refused to update his will because the client had recently been diagnosed with dementia. The client’s first question was “Why has my dementia diagnosis removed my ability to change my will?”…
At the Autonomy First multidisciplinary Capacity and Capability Clinic, we often work with family members after a dementia diagnosis. Unfortunately, we see a number of cases where the affected person has been treated as having no ability to contribute to their care…
Although the law treats the concepts of legal capacity and undue influence as separate entities, insofar as undue influence presupposes that the individual had capacity, in reality the two rarely operate in isolation. That is to say, whilst the law requires that...