Decision-Making Capacity
Assessing Capacities! This page is for VA practitioners to share resources regarding the assessment of decision making capacity. We have uploaded resources and hope you too will share with us helpful resources for upload to assist others.
Consent Related Capacities
Medical Consent Capacity
- Assessment of Capacity to Consent to Treatment (ACCT) Interview
- Four Consent Abilities, Definitions and Suggested questions for assessment
- Health Care Concerns: Potential Questions To Add To a Clinical Interview
- Health Values Interview Page
- Assessment of the Capacity to Consent to Treatment (ACCT)Administration and Technical Manual
- Empirical advances in the assessment of the capacity to consent to medical treatment: Clinical implications and research needs
- Assessment of Capacity to Consent to Treatment: Challenges, the “ACCT” Approach, Future Directions
- Capacity to Consent to Medical Treatment
Sexual Consent Capacity/Sexuality in Dementia
Capacity to Complete an Advanced Directive
Skill Based Capacities
Financial Capacity, Exploitation & Abuse
Driving Capacity
Independent Living Capacity
Ethical, Legal, and Other Resources
Educational Opportunities
Ethical and Related Issues
General Resources
- Capacity Evaluation Worksheet
- Preserving Rights for Individuals Facing Guardianship
- Using the CURE Mnemonic to Determine Level of Assessment in Capacity Evaluations
- Theoretical Frameworks For Competency In Cognitively Impaired Elderly Adults
- Capacity 101 Handouts
- Assessment of Capacity in an Aging Society
- Assessment of Decision-Making Capacity in Older Adults: An Emerging Area of Practice and Research
- Decision Making Capacity and Ethical Issues in Aging Webinar
- Incapacitated, Socially Isolated Veterans In Need of Surrogates (“Unbefriended”)
- All Capacity Handouts, Mar. 21, 2019