Summary

The key learning points of this week are:

• Mental capacity relates to decisions that can be everyday decisions like what to wear or more significant decisions like where to live.
• There are ways of helping people to make decisions for themselves.
• People have the right to make decisions that other people might think unwise, but this does not mean they lack the capacity to make a decision.

You should now be able to:

• describe different types of decision and the ones that no one else can make
• explain how decisions are made and what helps people make decisions
• explain what is meant by, and who is, the decision maker when a person lacks mental capacity or has fluctuating mental capacity
• describe in simple terms how decision makers decide
• describe in simple terms what is meant by an unwise decision.