What is impaired decision-making capacity?

What is impaired decision-making capacity?
What does it mean?

 ‘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 person’s decision-making capacity may be considered to be impaired even if: 

• the impairment only happens sometimes or varies depending on the situation 

• the person can make decisions about some personal or financial matters.

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