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Of Sound Mind? Dementia and Aspects of Assessing Legal Capacity
- Source :
- European Journal of Health Law. 22:13-37
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Brill, 2015.
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Abstract
- As dementia progresses, it weakens a person’s legal capacity. Both legal and medical aspects are closely intertwined in the assessment of legal capacity. It is a legal problem whose solution requires medical expertise and a medical point of view. It is essential for lawyers to have basic knowledge about the effects of dementing illnesses in order to properly understand medical evidence presented in a case. For a physician it is necessary to have knowledge about different kinds of legal capacities and the complexity of legal assessment.
- Subjects :
- Health Policy
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Personal autonomy
medicine.disease
Legal capacity
Basic knowledge
Self-determination
Order (business)
Personal Autonomy
Medical evidence
medicine
Humans
Dementia
Mental Competency
Health law
Engineering ethics
Psychology
Law
Social psychology
Finland
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15718093 and 09290273
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Health Law
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....307b5e88677f2a21328b58a67efda47d