Capacity Screening in Adult Protective Services: Guidance and Resources
Description
Adult protective services (APS) case workers are often the first to encounter situations where an older person or person with disabilities who is a victim of abuse, neglect or exploitation may also have impaired decision-making. Issues involving decision-making capacity are complex, cross-disciplinary and include knowledge of medical syndromes, clinical assessment, ethics, and the law. This brief addresses: understanding capacity terminology, the relationships between capacity and abuse, screening tools, and research on capacity screening.
