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Living 'a life like ours' : support workers' accounts of substitute decision-making in residential care homes for adults with intellectual disabilities

By: Dunn, M C.

Contributor(s): Clare, I C H | Holland, A J.

Series: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 54 (2) 2010: 144-160.Publisher: 2010Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): ADULTS

| INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

| SUPPORT STAFF

| DECISION MAKING

| INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY

| ETHICS

| RESIDENTIAL CARE

| LEGISLATION

| UNITED KINGDOM

| MENTAL CAPACITY ACT (UK) (2005)

| IMPLICATIONS

Summary: Discusses the implications of the UK's Mental Capacity Act which provides a new legal framework to regulate substitute decision-making relating to the welfare of adults who lack the capacity to make one or more autonomous decisions about their care and support.

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Discusses the implications of the UK's Mental Capacity Act which provides a new legal framework to regulate substitute decision-making relating to the welfare of adults who lack the capacity to make one or more autonomous decisions about their care and support.

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