Health care providers are increasingly screening low-income patients for social needs and making referrals to social services agencies to assist in resolving them. A major assumption of this approach ...

Focusing on older adults’ mental and physical capacities could be more effective than disease management in promoting healthy aging, according to the results of a new study. Researchers from Peking ...

We provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment for today's growing geriatric population and offer evidence based and individualized solutions for dealing with the challenges that come with normal ...

A term that is often misunderstood, in the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, is ‘material time’, which is used at section 2(1) of the MCA: "For the purposes of this Act, a person lacks capacity ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. As an individual with a disability, I live in fear ...

A council has been ordered to take action to address delays in mental capacity assessments and deprivation of liberty safeguards applications following an investigation. The Local Government and ...