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Additional authors

1. Smyer, Michael A.
2. Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-
3. Kapp, Marshall B.

Description

1. xiii, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Springer series on ethics, law, and aging ; 1996

Uniform title

1. Springer series on ethics, law, and aging 1996.

Subject

1. Mental Competency
2. Aged
3. Older people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Congresses
4. Capacity and disability > United States > Congresses
5. Older people > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
6. Capacity and disability > United States
7. Mental Competency > United States > Legislation
8. Aged, 80 and over
9. United States

Genre/Form

1. Congress
2. Legislation

Contents

1. 1. Competency: Refining Our Legal Fictions / Charles P. Sabatino. Commentary: A Cognitive Psychologist's Perspective on the Assessment of Cognitive Competency / Timothy A. Salthouse. Commentary: Statutory Definitions of Incapacity: The Need for a Medical Basis / Lawrence A. Frolik -- 2. Frailty, Risk, and Choice: Cultural Discourses and the Question of Responsibility / Sharon R. Kaufman and Gay Becker. Commentary: Managing Incapable People's Financial Affairs in England and Wales / A.B. Macfarlane. Commentary: Protection and Empowerment of the Elderly: Whose Needs Does the Law Really Serve? / John J. Regan -- 3. Assessing Everyday Competence in the Cognitively Challenged Elderly / Sherry L. Willis. Commentary: Everyday Competencies and Guardianship: Refinements and Realities / Mary Joy Quinn. Commentary: Decision-Making Capacity in the Acutely Ill Elderly / Cheryl Dellasega, Michael Smyer, Lori Frank and Rae Brown.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Edited proceedings of a conference held at the Pennsylvania State University, October 10-12, 1993.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain