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| Old age psychiatry and the law | | Author(s) | Robin Jacoby |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 180, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 116-119 |
| Keywords | Psychiatric treatment ; Psychogeriatric patients ; Admission [hospitals] ; Rights [elderly] ; Law. |
| Annotation | Old age psychiatry is no less subject to increasing legal and quasi-legal restraint than other branches of the profession, but the emphases are different. Two themes predominate, one being capacity or competence. The other is the extent to which formal legal measures should be implemented in cases where incapacitated patients do not dissent from - as opposed to giving active consent to - admission to hospital or receiving treatment. The author discusses recent case law, and current and proposed statute law. The case R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust (1998) threatened but ultimately failed to upset the status quo. However, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 may yet do so. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020219204 A |
| Classmark | LP: LF:E: LD:QKH: IKR: VR |
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