- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 2 Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview
- Chapter 3 Listening to the patient's voice
- Chapter 4 Advance Care Planning for older people
- Chapter 5 Spiritual aspects of Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 6 Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound?
- Chapter 7 Advance Care Planning for the end of life
- Chapter 8 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making
- Chapter 9 Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (ADRT)
- Chapter 10 The tough questions: do not attempt resuscitation discussions
- Chapter 11 Preferred priorities for care: an Advance Care Planning process
- Chapter 12 Experience of use of Advance Care Planning in care homes
- Chapter 13 Advance Care Planning in the community
- Chapter 14 ACP in hospice and specialist palliative care
- Chapter 15 Advanced Care Planning: thinking ahead for parents and children
- Chapter 16 Issues around capacity
- Chapter 17 Advance directives and Advance Care Planning: the US experience
- Chapter 18 A common sense guide to improving Advance Care Planning: from theory to practice
- Chapter 19 Advance Care Planning in Canada: past experience and current strategies
- Chapter 20 The evolution of Advance Care Planning in Australia with a focus on hospital care
- Chapter 21 Advance Care Planning discussions in Australia: the development of clinical practice guidelines
- Chapter 22 Living and dying in style: Australia—an example of ACP in action
- Chapter 23 Communication skills and Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 24 Working with local commissioners to deliver Advanced Care Planning
- Appendix 1 Useful websites and resources
- Appendix 2 Aids to communication
- Appendix 3 Guidance and useful ACP tools
- Index
The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making
The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making
- Chapter:
- (p.83) Chapter 8 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making
- Source:
- Advance Care Planning in End of Life Care
- Author(s):
Simon Chapman
Andrew Makin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter provides an overview of the MCA's impact on end of life care. It situates the MCA in the current context of policy and practice. It describes how the MCA can be used to improve care, enable people to express and protect choices, and empower and enable the professional and/or the proxy decision maker. It also presents an introduction and explanation of the role of the IMCA and how it might apply to Advance Care Planning (ACP) and End of Life decision making, and an explanation of the legal and ethical process involved in reaching best interest decisions, especially for potentially vulnerable people in care homes and other settings.
Keywords: Mental Capacity Act, Advance Care Planning, end of life care, mental capacity, best interest decisions
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Overview and introduction to Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 2 Advance Care Planning for the end of life: an overview
- Chapter 3 Listening to the patient's voice
- Chapter 4 Advance Care Planning for older people
- Chapter 5 Spiritual aspects of Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 6 Advance Care Planning: politically correct, but ethically sound?
- Chapter 7 Advance Care Planning for the end of life
- Chapter 8 The implications of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 for Advance Care Planning and decision making
- Chapter 9 Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (ADRT)
- Chapter 10 The tough questions: do not attempt resuscitation discussions
- Chapter 11 Preferred priorities for care: an Advance Care Planning process
- Chapter 12 Experience of use of Advance Care Planning in care homes
- Chapter 13 Advance Care Planning in the community
- Chapter 14 ACP in hospice and specialist palliative care
- Chapter 15 Advanced Care Planning: thinking ahead for parents and children
- Chapter 16 Issues around capacity
- Chapter 17 Advance directives and Advance Care Planning: the US experience
- Chapter 18 A common sense guide to improving Advance Care Planning: from theory to practice
- Chapter 19 Advance Care Planning in Canada: past experience and current strategies
- Chapter 20 The evolution of Advance Care Planning in Australia with a focus on hospital care
- Chapter 21 Advance Care Planning discussions in Australia: the development of clinical practice guidelines
- Chapter 22 Living and dying in style: Australia—an example of ACP in action
- Chapter 23 Communication skills and Advance Care Planning
- Chapter 24 Working with local commissioners to deliver Advanced Care Planning
- Appendix 1 Useful websites and resources
- Appendix 2 Aids to communication
- Appendix 3 Guidance and useful ACP tools
- Index