Introduction: Competency means the capacity to make responsible and balanced decisions. This may be performed in clinical settings (decision-making abilities on treatment or risky diagnostic procedures) and also in daily-life activities (financial matters, nursing home admittance, contracts, etc.). Competency is linked to the ethical principle of autonomy and to a horizontal doctor–patient interaction, far from ancient paternalistic relationships. It is contemplated in the Spanish law as the patient's right to be informed and to make free choices, particularly in cases of dementia. Development: The competency that we assess is the so-called natural or working capacity. It is specific for an action or task. The level of required capacity dep...
This chapter examines various definitions of mental competence in the elderly and evaluates their ad...
Cognitive and functional losses are only part of the spectrum of disability experienced by persons w...
El deterioro de las funciones cognitivas puede afectar a las habilidades de conducción vehicular rep...
The legal competency or capability to exercise rights is level of judgment and decision-making abili...
The progressive ageing of a population leads to an increase in the number of people suffering from c...
This column investigates different levels and types of cognitive impairment in later life and explai...
INTRODUCCIÓN: la competencia es la posibilidad de integrar un conjunto de funciones y estructuras de...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a competency framework for sta...
In Chile, more than 180 thousand people (1% of the population) have some form of dementia. The figu...
Contains fulltext : 88020.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)The diagnosis ...
The assessment of decision-making capacity is an essential element of competency determina-tions. As...
The evaluation of competence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients to assume personal or collective r...
We studied the utility of a 'vignette method' to assess mental competency for decision making on med...
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Psychiatric Quarterly. T...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a competency framework for staff...
This chapter examines various definitions of mental competence in the elderly and evaluates their ad...
Cognitive and functional losses are only part of the spectrum of disability experienced by persons w...
El deterioro de las funciones cognitivas puede afectar a las habilidades de conducción vehicular rep...
The legal competency or capability to exercise rights is level of judgment and decision-making abili...
The progressive ageing of a population leads to an increase in the number of people suffering from c...
This column investigates different levels and types of cognitive impairment in later life and explai...
INTRODUCCIÓN: la competencia es la posibilidad de integrar un conjunto de funciones y estructuras de...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a competency framework for sta...
In Chile, more than 180 thousand people (1% of the population) have some form of dementia. The figu...
Contains fulltext : 88020.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)The diagnosis ...
The assessment of decision-making capacity is an essential element of competency determina-tions. As...
The evaluation of competence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients to assume personal or collective r...
We studied the utility of a 'vignette method' to assess mental competency for decision making on med...
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Psychiatric Quarterly. T...
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a competency framework for staff...
This chapter examines various definitions of mental competence in the elderly and evaluates their ad...
Cognitive and functional losses are only part of the spectrum of disability experienced by persons w...
El deterioro de las funciones cognitivas puede afectar a las habilidades de conducción vehicular rep...