Try: The ability to make informed decisions is essential to medical treatment if the Care recipient (cr) suffers from diminished capacity he may be unable to give informed consent to medical decisions mental capacity refers to the ability of a cr to make decisions based upon a competent perception of reality in general the law will presume that adults have appropriate mental capacity however evidence of incapacity can be used to overcome the presumption for caregivers it is probably most important to decide what level of comprehension is necessary to consent to medical treatment capacity is a complex issue because it is difficult to determine while a cr who is unconscious and in a coma is obviously incapacitated most crs have at least some level of capacity information references

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Keywords: Mental health capacity medical

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