When the Mind Fails : : A Guide to Dealing with Incompetency / / Arthur Fish, Michel Silberfield.
Incompetency is loss of the ability to make, and act on, your own decisions and with the aging of North America's population, it is increasingly widespread. It can happen to anyone and many people want to plan for its possibility in order to ensure their own care and protection. Incompetency ca...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. What is incompetency ?
- 2. Incompetency as a human problem
- 3. Assessing competency
- 4. Informal competency assessment
- 5. Formal competency assessment
- 6. Guardianship and other imposed care
- 7. Planning for incompetency
- Conclusion
- Index