Mental capacity : powers of attorney and advance health directives / editors Berna Collier, Chris Coyne, Karen Sullivan.

Sydney : Federation Press, 2005.

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Power of attorney -- Australia.

Mental health -- Australia.

Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Australia.

1. An overview of the relevant legal principles

2. Legal requirements and current practices

3. Mental capacity in medical practice and advance care planning: clinical, ethical and legal issues

4. Measuring mental capacity; models, methods and tests

5. Capacity assessment for making an advance health directive: the role of a neuropsychologist

Conclusion.

Includes index.

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xviii, 174 p.