Hawkridge Solicitors - Medway - Gillingham - Kent
This is a rapidly developing area of the law and includes the following specific areas:
Law For Elderly
Home Visits Available
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – which sometime soon will be extended to cover not just financial authority as at present but decisions on Health Care and Residence and will be called Lasting Powers.
- Court of Protection. Where the Enduring Power needs registration or it has been left too late to make an Enduring Power.
- Funding of Nursing and Residential Care Homes. If you are ill it may be that you should not pay for your care.
- Protecting the Family Home.
- Advice on Pensions and Benefits
- Home Visits Available
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has now received royal assent and has to be implemented when ever there is a question as to the mental capacity of an individual. There are five key principles in the Act:
- Every adult has the right to make his or her own decisions and must be assumed to have capacity to make them unless it is proved otherwise.
- A person must be given all practicable help before anyone treats them as not being able to make their own decisions.
- Just because an individual makes what might be seen as an unwise decision, they should not be treated as lacking capacity to make that decision.
- Anything done or any decision made on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done in their best interests.
- Anything done for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity should be the least restrictive of their basic rights and freedoms.
These principles are now at the core of how social services, hospitals, nursing homes and all professionals conduct themselves when dealing with any individual. It also dictates how an attorney should behave in acting in their capacity as an attorney.
Contact John Hawkridge, Mark Hawkridge or Sarah Hassell on Freephone 0800 019 3967 or email john@hawklaw.co.uk or mark@hawklaw.co.uk or sarah@hawklaw.co.uk
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This is a rapidly developing area of the law and includes the following specific areas:
Law For Elderly
Home Visits Available
- Enduring Powers of Attorney – which sometime soon will be extended to cover not just financial authority as at present but decisions on Health Care and Residence and will be called Lasting Powers.
- Court of Protection. Where the Enduring Power needs registration or it has been left too late to make an Enduring Power.
- Funding of Nursing and Residential Care Homes. If you are ill it may be that you should not pay for your care.
- Protecting the Family Home.
- Advice on Pensions and Benefits
- Home Visits Available
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has now received royal assent and has to be implemented when ever there is a question as to the mental capacity of an individual. There are five key principles in the Act:
- Every adult has the right to make his or her own decisions and must be assumed to have capacity to make them unless it is proved otherwise.
- A person must be given all practicable help before anyone treats them as not being able to make their own decisions.
- Just because an individual makes what might be seen as an unwise decision, they should not be treated as lacking capacity to make that decision.
- Anything done or any decision made on behalf of a person who lacks capacity must be done in their best interests.
- Anything done for or on behalf of a person who lacks capacity should be the least restrictive of their basic rights and freedoms.
These principles are now at the core of how social services, hospitals, nursing homes and all professionals conduct themselves when dealing with any individual. It also dictates how an attorney should behave in acting in their capacity as an attorney.
Contact John Hawkridge, Mark Hawkridge or Sarah Hassell on Freephone 0800 019 3967 or email john@hawklaw.co.uk or mark@hawklaw.co.uk or sarah@hawklaw.co.uk
Please click on the link below to download further information
Click here to download document