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• Guardianship - Making decisions

  From my earlier posts here and here, I discussed the possible uses of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act in a particular scenario. It seemed that in general, the Mental Capacity Act seemed to be offering similar authority as the Mental... Posted Sep 03 2008, 06:21 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: work, mental health, mental health act, approved social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Guardianship, Human Rights Act 1998

• Guardianship - What hope for the Mental Capacity Act?

  So yesterday, I had found some of the reasons that the Mental Health Act could be used to apply for Guardianship in considering A. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is fairly new ground - well, over a year now(don’t be fooled by that 2005 thing!) but... Posted Sep 02 2008, 06:13 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, local authority, health care, mental health act, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Guardianship, five principles, Court of Protection

• Guardianship - or a journey into Section 7 of the Mental Health Act

  I was called into one of the CMHT (Community Mental Health Team) meetings last week. It was a bit of a surprise. We don’t tend to go into other peoples’ meetings. It is almost like entering an alternate universe. People have the same roles... Posted Sep 01 2008, 06:25 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, older people, work, ASW, mental health, MCA, old age, elderly, uk, health, mental health act, approved social worker, mental health act 1983, mental capacity act, Mental disorder, Mental Capacity Act 2005, approved mental health professional, Guardianship

• Reviewing IMCAs

  Yesterday the First Annual Report of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)  was published. I have had some experiences of using IMCAs over the last 18 months but with increasing frequency and it’s probably the same for most of my... Posted Jul 25 2008, 04:58 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, mental health, MCA, mental capacity, old age, elderly, long-term care, health, decision-making, imca, independent mental capacity advocate, mental capacity act