When markets are doing well, investors are likely to underestimate risk and chase investments that are too aggressive for their risk profile. Amid the excitement, risk capacity—the ability to take on ...

NEW ORLEANS ― Evaluating a patient's capacity to make decisions about his or her personal healthcare can present a significant challenge for physicians, but evaluating intoxicated patients has its own ...

We provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment for today's growing geriatric population and offer evidence based and individualized solutions for dealing with the challenges that come with normal ...

Southampton City Council was found to be at fault over an 18-month delay in carrying out a mental capacity assessment A council has been ordered to cut delays in mental capacity assessments after a ...

Focusing on older adults’ mental and physical capacities could be more effective than disease management in promoting healthy aging, according to the results of a new study. Researchers from Peking ...

The process of assessing a person’s mental capacity is often misunderstood by social care practitioners as they seek to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) and the lessons from ...

A 23-year-old starts a new job. She remembers her parents griping and worrying about their stock investments during the global financial crisis and knows she too would feel terrible if she saw her ...

As an individual with a disability, I live in fear that if admitted to hospital, a health-care provider may deem me incompetent based on my disability. This may seem unlikely, but my lived, academic ...