This session on the Mental Capacity Act is a follow-up to a previous session in February.

It will pick up on questions commonly asked by occupational therapists and others, including:

• If, when and how to assess capacity?
• Proportionality of capacity assessment, and how formal should it be?
• Difference between a person complying with something, and consenting to it
• Changing or fluctuating capacity, and how to approach it
• Executive capacity: (e.g. somebody apparently capacitous but repeatedly unable to use and weigh information at the relevant time)
• Relevance to decision-making of next of kin, and of lasting power of attorney
• Assessment of risk, implications of lack of capacity – and role of professional judgement