Mental Health Foundation

Am trying to use the mental capacity asssessment audit tool on your website. However, not sure if I am missing something but I cannot seem to access the actual questions. The answers are there to select but cannot see the related questions. Am I doing something wrong?

I felt the question on delaying the assessment until the person was able to make the decision was poorly worded and did not offer the option of indicating where a person was highly unlikely to regain the capacity to make the dedcision irrespective of a further or future delay. For example, a person with significant cognitive impairment arising from a degenerative condition would not recover decisionmkaing capacity and therefore delaying the decision would not change that.

I almost always fall foul of step 5 with the report criticising my "not sure" answer on the presumption of Capacity. In making the referral for a DoLS assessment the M.A. has already asserted that the client lacks capacity, and that has triggered my attendance. I enter into the assessment with an open mind. I am unsure, because the presumption of Capacity conflicts with the assertion of the Managing Authority. If I was Sure that the client had capacity then I would not be doing the assessment.

Does anyone know of a toolkit for assessing the capacity of someone with moderate/severe learning disability to decide where they want to live if their current home closes? I would be grateful for any information. Thanks

I found the questions abigious at timewhuch led me to wrong answers eg in q 2 i did the assessment because thre person was making an unwise decision in my eyes and I new they had problems understanding and making decisions as a result of previous assessment.I had to decide whether i needed to gio in their bezst interests or not.Q 6I did not neeed help to communicate but I did have someones help who knew rthem well -q8 also relates to this however