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- A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law
- A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Common Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Dementia
- Chapter 2 Dementia
- Chapter 3 Dementia
- Chapter 4 The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Chapter 5 The Mental Health Act 1983
- Chapter 6 The Care Act 2014
- Chapter 7 Assessment of Capacity
- Chapter 8 The Diagnosis of Dementia
- Chapter 9 Care and Treatment Issues and the Law
- Chapter 10 Deprivation of Liberty
- Chapter 11 Discharge from Hospital
- Chapter 12 Abuse and Safeguarding
- Chapter 13 The Courts and Tribunals
- Chapter 14 The Interface between Dementia and the Criminal Justice System
- Book part
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Dementia
The Wider Social and Legal Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law
- A Clinician’s Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Common Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Dementia
- Chapter 2 Dementia
- Chapter 3 Dementia
- Chapter 4 The Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Chapter 5 The Mental Health Act 1983
- Chapter 6 The Care Act 2014
- Chapter 7 Assessment of Capacity
- Chapter 8 The Diagnosis of Dementia
- Chapter 9 Care and Treatment Issues and the Law
- Chapter 10 Deprivation of Liberty
- Chapter 11 Discharge from Hospital
- Chapter 12 Abuse and Safeguarding
- Chapter 13 The Courts and Tribunals
- Chapter 14 The Interface between Dementia and the Criminal Justice System
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, we will outline the different settings in which people with dementia receive care. Because the services that are recruited and the decisions that are required to be made will often correlate with the severity of dementia, we will give an outline of the different stages of dementia (particularly as they apply to Alzheimer’s disease). We will discuss the prognosis of dementia, given its importance in a legal and clinical context, before outlining the elements of services for dementia, as well as the principles that should be applied in delivering care. We will then outline some of the ethical issues that arise in practice, but we will explore more specifically how these three statutes relate to the range of situations that arise over the succeeding chapters.
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- A Clinician's Brief Guide to Dementia and the Law , pp. 9 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023