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Competence Assessment in Dementia

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Editors:
  1. Gabriela Stoppe

    1. Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken, Basel, Schweiz

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  • Comprehensive overview of different aspects of the competence assessment in dementia
  • Neuropsychological, medical, ethical and legal perspectives
  • Written by European experts in this field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Why is Competence Assessment Important? Development of the EDCON Consensus Statement

      • Lienhard Maeck, Gabriela Stoppe
      Pages 1-9

  3. EDCON-Consensus; Assessment of Competence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Neuropsychological Assessment

      • Pasquale Calabrese
      Pages 13-24

    3. Brain Structures Inoalved in Dementia

      • Matthias Brand, Hans J. Markowitsch
      Pages 25-34

    4. Medical Factors Interfering With Competence In Dementia

      • Maria E. Soto, Bruno Vellas
      Pages 35-40

    5. Drugs That Affect Competence

      • Conor O’Luanaigh, Brian Lawlor
      Pages 41-50

    6. Who Decides Who Decides? Ethical Perspectives on Capacity and Decision-making

      • Deborah Bowman
      Pages 51-59

    7. Are Legal Systems in Europe Fit for The Dementia Challenge? Approach of The Council of Europe

      • Nicole Kerschen
      Pages 61-70

    8. Testamentary and Financial Competence Issues in Dementia

      • Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Katerina Despos
      Pages 71-75

    9. Assessment of Competency and Advance Directives

      • Julian C. Hughes
      Pages 77-84

    10. Informed Consent in Dementia Research

      • Anco vd Vorm, Marcel C M Olde Rikkert
      Pages 85-91

    11. Assessment of Fitness to Drive, Possession of Professional Drivers’ License, Possession of Firearms, and Pilot’s Certificate in Clients with Dementing Conditions

      • Kurt Johansson, Catarina Lundberg
      Pages 93-101

    12. Practice of Competence Assement in Dementia; Austria

      • Johannes Wancata, Josef Marksteiner
      Pages 103-105

    13. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia; Denmark

      • Dorthe Vennemose Buss, Gunhild Waldemar
      Pages 107-108

    14. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia; Finland

      • Raimo Sulkava
      Pages 109-111

    15. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia: France

      • Marie Bouyssy, Emilie Legay, Vincent Camus
      Pages 113-115

    16. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia: Germany

      • Volker Lipp
      Pages 117-119

    17. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia: Greece

      • Magda Tsolaki, Eleni Tsantali
      Pages 121-124

    18. Practice of Competence Assessment in Dementia: Ireland

      • Mairead Bartley, Desmond O’Neill
      Pages 125-127
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About this book

1 Dementia and related disorders affect the suffer- minimal standards of care for people with dementia , ers’ ability to perform activities of daily living and the improvement of access to diagnosis and treat- 2 3 to make appropriate decisions about various issues ment , ethical issues related to research in dementia , relevant to their life. While there is no disagreement the problems related to severe dementia, stigma and about these facts there is little clarity and even less social exclusion of people with dementia, assessment consensus about the ways in which competence to of outcome of treatment of dementia and the asse- make decisions should be assessed in daily practice ment of competence of people with dementia. The – nor is there agreement about the levels of compe- work to develop consensus on the latter subject lead, tence at which it is in the best interest of the people inter alia to the production of this volume. with dementia to have a guardian and receive legal In its work the EDCON Steering committee - protection against abuse and other mistreatment. lects areas on which it will concentrate and desig- In daily clinical practice there is a large heterogene- nates a coordinator for the work on each of those.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken, Basel, Schweiz

    Gabriela Stoppe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Competence Assessment in Dementia

  • Editors: Gabriela Stoppe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-72369-2

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-72368-5Published: 20 November 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-99903-5Published: 13 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-72369-2Published: 29 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 184

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Neuropsychology, Medical Law

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