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Assessment of older adults with diminished capacity : a handbook for lawyers.

Title
Assessment of older adults with diminished capacity : a handbook for lawyers.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging : American Psychological Association, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • ABA/APA Assessment of Capacity in Older Adults Project Working Group.
  • American Bar Association. Commission on Law and Aging.
  • American Psychological Association.
  • Moye, Jennifer
Description
vii, 72 p.; 28 cm.
Subject
  • Aged
  • Aged
  • Aide juridique aux personnes âgées > États-Unis > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Capacity and disability > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Disability Evaluation
  • Disability Evaluation > United States
  • Droit > Pratique > États-Unis > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Forensic Psychiatry > United States
  • Geriatric Assessment
  • Incapacité (Droit) > États-Unis > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Legal assistance to older people > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Older people > Functional assessment > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Personnes âgées > Évaluation fonctionnelle > États-Unis > Guides, manuels, etc
  • Practice of law > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Handbooks and manuals
  • Handbooks and manuals.
Note
  • "Product code: 4280025"--T.p. verso.
  • " ... represents the first work product of the ABA/APA Assessment of Capacity in Older Adults Project Working Group ..."--P. iv.
  • "Jennifer Moye was the editor of this handbook"--P. iv.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Importance of lawyer assessment of client capacity -- 2. Legal standards of diminished capacity -- 3. Clinical models of capacity -- 4. Lawyer assessment of capacity -- 5. Techniques lawyers can use to enhance client capacity -- 6. Referrals for consultation or formal assessment -- 7. Understanding and using the capacity assessment report.
ISBN
1590314972
LCCN
^^2006281134
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library