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Power of attorney As long as the person living with dementia has legal capacity (the ability to understand and appreciate the consequences of his or her actions) he or she should take part in legal planning.
The standard procedure in many Courts when a defendant is found unable to stand trial is a commitment to a mental hospital for ?restoration of competence to stand trial.? Restoration is impossible for a person with a progressive dementia whose deficits are the cause of the finding of incompetence.
A person with dementia may still have legal capacity if they can understand the nature and consequences of their decisions. However, as the disease progresses, the person may become incapacitated and unable to make decisions on their own behalf.
Introduction: The five-word test (5WT) is a serial verbal memory test with semantic cuing. It is proposed to rapidly evaluate memory of aging people and has previously shown its sensitivity and its specificity in identifying patients with AD.
Older adults with dementia who are victims of crime should be evaluated for their ability to remember emotional events in their lives, and based on the results, allowed to provide testimony about the criminal events.