Background A new legal capacity act was introduced in Ireland in 2015. This study aimed to
identify and critically examine key issues in the area of decision‐making capacity from the …

This article summarises key aspects of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in England and
Wales. In particular, it focuses on the implementation of this Act and the lessons that can be …

Background: Canada was the first country to develop legal mechanisms that allow for
supported decision making, and little research has explored how decision making is …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the way that practitioners apply the 2005
Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in complex cases involving people with learning disabilities who …

In the UK, current policies and services for people with mental disorders, including those
with intellectual disabilities (ID), presume that these men and women can, do, and should …

Supported decision-making has been promoted as the process and legal mechanism by
which people with cognitive disabilities can be supported to become self-determining …

This article aims to help readers to understand the conceptual link between supported
decision making and legal capacity and how this is influencing the development of practice …

In the context of normalisation and rights recognition, capacity for decision-making by
people with an intellectual disability has emerged as an important but potentially contentious …

Abstract Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) has created new imperatives for thinking about decision making and …

Background: Supporting people with intellectual disability to make decisions is an important
issue for policy implementation yet there is little evidence about the practice of providing …