Changes in decision-making capacity in older adults : assessment and intervention / edited by Sara Honn Qualls, Michael A. Smyer. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007. - xiv, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Wiley series in clinical geropsychology .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Aging effects on decision-making capacity -- Aging and decision-making capacity : an overview / Michael A. Smyer -- Cognitive changes across the life span / Shannon M. Foster ... [et al.] -- Medical factors affecting mental capacity / Kathryn Kaye and Jim Grigsby -- Impact of dementia on decision-making abilities / Stacey Wood and Betty E. Tanius -- Social and legal contexts of capacity decisions -- Decision-making capacity : the players / Sara Honn Qualls -- A primer for legal proceedings / Wayna M. Marshall, Catherine Seal, and Lynn Vanatta-Perry -- Culture and medical decision making / Michele J. Karel -- Clinical evaluation and intervention -- Clinical frameworks for capacity assessment / Jennifer Moye -- The role of neuropsychological assessment in capacity evaluations / Stacey Wood -- Assessment of medical consent capacity and independent living / Jennifer Moye and Michelle Braun -- Assessment of financial capacity in older adults with dementia / Katina R. Hebert and Daniel C. Marson -- Clinical interventions for decision making with impaired persons / Sara Honn Qualls -- The business of geropsychology : billing and preparing legal reports and testimony / Kathryn Kaye and Michael Kenny.

9780470037980 (cloth) 0470037989 (cloth)

2007028125


Decision making in old age.

BF724.85.D44 / C48 2007

155.67 / QUC 2007

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