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Responsive Practice With Older Persons

Relevant Resources: 

  • ABA Commn on L & Aging & Am Psychological Assn Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Lawyers (2005).
  • Paul Appelbaum "Assessment of patient’s competence to consent to treatment" (2007) 357 New England Journal of Medicine 1834–1840.
  • Sylvia Bell Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act and Analysis (Thomson Reuters , Wellington, NZ, 2012). 
  • Kate Diesfeld and Ian McIntosh (Eds) Elder Law in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, NZ, 2014). 
  • A Douglass, G Young and J McMillan “A toolkit for assessing capacity” in A. Douglass (Ed) Mental Capacity: Updating New Zealand’s Law and Practice (New Zealand Law foundationWellington, 2016) at 236.

  • Alison Douglass Mental Capacity: Updating New Zealand’s Law and Practice. Report for the New Zealand Law Foundation (New Zealand Law Foundation, Wellington, 2016) <http://www.alisondouglass.co.nz>

  • Peter Skegg and Ron Paterson (2015) “Capacity to consent to treatment” in PDG Skegg and R Paterson (eds) Health Law in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2015) at 213–258.

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