Allowing dementia patients to make decisions isn’t sensible... As soon as you’ve been diagnosed that you have dementia, pick a person... That person will make your decisions... Not you. In Joe’s case, this would Jill.
You have an internal contradiction here that illustrates my point.
If someone diagnosed with dementia cannot make decisions, then how can that person with dementia choose who speaks for them. Picking that spokesman would be a decision that the demented person would not be able to do.
Im not trying to give you a hard time here. But people who have dementia typically have.a cause for it that is progressive. This means that early on in the course of the disease they may be capable of self-determination only to lose that capacity later on.
Again, dementia and what causes it is a medical determination. Losing decision-making capacity is a legal one based on the level of practical impairment that the person with dementia has … e.g., can they balance a checkbook, find their way home from the store, understand a contract well enough to enter into it, meet their own needs adequately without the help of others, and so forth.
You have an internal contradiction here that illustrates my point.
If someone diagnosed with dementia cannot make decisions, then how can that person with dementia choose who speaks for them. Picking that spokesman would be a decision that the demented person would not be able to do.
Im not trying to give you a hard time here. But people who have dementia typically have.a cause for it that is progressive. This means that early on in the course of the disease they may be capable of self-determination only to lose that capacity later on.
Again, dementia and what causes it is a medical determination. Losing decision-making capacity is a legal one based on the level of practical impairment that the person with dementia has … e.g., can they balance a checkbook, find their way home from the store, understand a contract well enough to enter into it, meet their own needs adequately without the help of others, and so forth.