It’s important to help someone living with dementia mate wareware to get all the support that they need to make their own decisions and to protect their rights if they are being assessed for mental capacity. This July 2024 online Network hui provided an opportunity to learn more about using supported decision-making to help someone living with dementia mate wareware to make their own decisions and have control over the things that impact and are important to them and how decision-making capacity is currently assessed in a legal sense.

What is supported decision-making and how can we be doing more of it?
Author:
Craig Sinclair: Presentation to Dementia Matewareware Network Hui June 2024 
Description:
Dr Craig Sinclair explain what supported decision-making and its links with the disability rights movement and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He explores some of the national developments and research emerging in Australia.
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What is decision-making capacity and how do we assess it?
Author:
Greg Young: Presentation to Dementia Matewareware Network Hui June 2024 
Description:
Dr Greg Young explains the history behind the concept of decision-making capacity and how it is currently viewed in Aotearoa New Zealand law.
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