Definitions
A person's ability to make a decision.
What is capacity?
The majority of cases of dementia are this type.
What is Alzheimer's?
Ombudsman usually assess capacity during this.
What is an "initial visit"?
This is one reason a client may not be able to provide consent.
What is "they lack capacity"? (other reasons possible)
This is the legal determination of one's ability to handle one's affairs.
What is Competence?
A frequently-stigmatized cause of diminished capacity.
What is addiction disorder?
It is abbreviated BIMS
What is Brief Interview for Mental Status?
This is what we do with our written consent forms.
This is the best LTCOP region.
What is Region 2?
What are Activities of Daily Living?
This is a document frequently completed by a physician to make a recommendation about competence.
An ombudsman can request this from a facility in order to help them assess capacity.
What is a medical record?
This is the ODIS screen that contains checkboxes for notating consent.
What is Client Screen?
What are ombudsman associates?
TBI
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Common and temporary physical cause of reduced capacity in older adults.
What is UTI?
These are two things ombudsmen can do to ensure accurate assessment of capacity.
What are -
slow down, stress confidentiality, start simple, give silence for word finding, multiple visits, etc
This is how a resolution is determined if a client lacks capacity.
What is the satisfaction of the person who represented the client during the investigation?
The capacity to live independently involves these skills.
What are ADLs, managing emergencies, physical strength?
A way of viewing capacity that looks at how well a person functions in society.
What is functional capacity?
One of the people who can give consent on behalf of a deceased resident in a case.
What is executor?
For someone with reduced capacity, this is the term for tools used to assist in understanding and making decisions.
What are functional supports?
Obtaining SLTCO consent is done on this screen.
What is the case search screen?
This is one of the questions asked when completing a BIMS assessments.
What are -
repeat three words
date