Can anyone help with this question? A friend's elderly mother has dementia and didn't set up an EPA/LPA in advance. The friend thinks that her mother would no longer be considered to have capacity to make her own decisions (it's advancing very quickly, sadly). I don't think the "deputy" system where the Court of Protection can appoint someone to take a decision on your behalf kicks in for health/welfare decisions - just for financial decisions.
So who does make these decisions? Is it my friend as NOK, or the medical team, or both? If not them, then who?
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Nyborg · 06/10/2014 20:35
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