Mental Capacity

The syllabus includes, for example:

  • Advance Directives
  • Assessing capacity
  • Attorneys and Deputies
  • Best interests
  • Choice
  • Codes of Practice
  • Court of Protection
  • Decision making
  • IMCA service (advocacy)
  • Lack of capacity
  • Living wills
  • Mental capacity, what it is and is not
  • Mental health
  • Needs, wishes and preferences
  • Person centred care
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Presumption of capacity
  • Principles of mental capacity
  • Protection from liability
  • Public Guardian
  • Restraint