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Assessing Capacities of Older Adults: A Casebook to Guide Difficult Decisions

by Jennifer Moye
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781433831546
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Publisher Imprint: American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 337
  • Original Price: USD 68.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 613 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Developmental / Adulthood & Aging

This book demonstrates how to address practical and ethical challenges when evaluating capacities of older adults with neurocognitive disorders, like dementia. The contributors are expert clinicians who draw upon real-life experiences conducting clinical capacity assessments in civil matters, illustrating best practices from the ABA/APA's Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists.

Chapters cover complex and difficult issues in careful detail, including:
* financial exploitation,
* undue influence,
* sexual consent, and
* medical aid in dying.

The author also provides guidance for negotiating family conflicts, working with surrogate decision-makers who also have diminished capacity, coordinating with medical and legal professionals, and addressing other situations that involve multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.

A recurring theme throughout the volume is the challenge of balancing a client's right to autonomy, while also protecting them from harm. The book offers careful, effective advice for keeping clients who lack decision-making capacity involved in their healthcare choices and working to maintain their independence when daily living skills are impaired.

Jennifer Moye, PhD, is the Associate Director of Education and Evaluation for New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Bedford VA Medical Center and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1992. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Gerontologist. Her main research interests concern capacity, guardianship, and adjustment to medical illness in older adults, as well as geriatrics and gerontology education. Jennifer Moye lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Follow @JenniferMoyePhD on Twitter.

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