capacity and competency
- related: General Medicine
Capacity
- Medical
- Ability for person to make isolated decisions about procedures, tests, placements that impact health
- requirements:
- do they understand the condition
- do they understand treatment
- alternatives
- risks and benefits
Competency
- Legal
- global decision making
- finances
- healthcare
- living situation
- guardians steps in = DSS state, friend, family
- Person who does not have competency also do not have capacity