{"id":349,"date":"2011-05-01T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2018-02-03T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T23:37:34","slug":"comprehensive-assessments-of-competence-a-psychiatrists-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Assessments of Competence: A Psychiatrist\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>From the point of view of a geriatric psychiatrist who does assessments of competence, there are a number of essential elements to consider, as well as some more nuanced issues.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with some core considerations: (1) competence is always presumed when the evidence is inconclusive; (2) competence is task- or decision- specific, such that assessments for each task or decision must be independent (for example, consent to treatment, refusal of treatment, choosing where to live, managing one\u2019s finances oneself, executing a power of attorney or a mandate in case of incapacity, or making a will); (3) the recommended intervention should be the least restrictive of autonomy, while adequately protecting the patient.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This article was published in the\u00a0McGill Journal of Law and Health ~ Revue de droit et Sant\u00e9 de McGill, in 2011. The complete citation is:<\/p>\n<p>Olders H. Comprehensive Assessments of Competence: A Psychiatrist\u2019s Perspective. McGill Journal of Law and Health. 2011;5:283-286.<\/p>\n<p>Download a pdf of the article here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Olders-2011-788.pdf\">Comprehensive Assessments of Competence: A Psychiatrist\u2019s Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the point of view of a geriatric psychiatrist who does assessments of competence, there are a number of essential elements to consider, as well as some more nuanced issues. Let\u2019s start with some core considerations: (1) competence is always presumed when the evidence is inconclusive; (2) competence is task-&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,43,44],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-competence","tag-elderly","tag-psychiatry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henry.olders.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}