Open AccessDoLS or Quality Care?
Author(s) -
Gordon R. Ashton
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of mental health and capacity law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2056-3922
DOI - 10.19164/ijmhcl.v2016i22.483
Subject(s) - mental capacity , jurisdiction , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , relevance (law) , law , quality (philosophy) , psychology , law and economics , sociology , political science , psychiatry , epistemology , history , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , artificial intelligence
Gordon Ashton draws on his experience as a parent and a judge to consider the relevance of deprivation of liberty safeguards in the context of the care of adults who lack capacity to make their own decisions but need constant supervision, and then outlines his perspective as a potential consumer of the mental capacity jurisdiction.