What is impaired decision-making capacity?

 ‘Impaired decision-making capacity’ is where someone has difficulty:

• understanding and remembering information about their personal or financial matters
• weighing up this information to make reasoned and informed decisions
• communicating their decisions.

An adult’s decision-making capacity may be considered to be impaired even if:

• the impairment only happens sometimes or varies depending on the situation
• the adult can make decisions about some personal or financial matters.
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