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Contents
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- Introduction
- 1 What is mental capacity?
- 2 Who and how many lack mental capacity?
- 3 How does time affect mental capacity?
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Types of decisions
- 2 Unwise decisions
- 3 Who is the decision maker?
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How the law developed
- 2 Mental capacity principles
- 3 Applying the legal principles
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Assessments in care
- 2 Who assesses?
- 3 Doing an assessment
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Decisions, children and young people
- 2 Children, young people and decisions
- 3 Exceptional situations
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Capacity and people with learning disabilities
- 2 Decisions, rights and responsibilities
- 3 Exceptional situations
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Further reading
- Introduction
- 1 Getting old
- 2 Decision making and older people
- 3 Exceptional situations
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Further reading
- Introduction
- 1 How the law is changing
- 2 What have you learned?
- 3 What do you want to do next?
- 4 Next steps
- This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Tell us what you think
- Further reading
- References
- Acknowledgements
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