Welcome back to another episode of Capacity Conversations! Today, we are pleased to welcome the Capacity Clinic’s medical director Dr. Richard Shulman and our chief legal officer Jasmine Sweatman to the podcast! We are thrilled to have them both here to discuss a very important topic: identifying the signs of vulnerability.
Richard is a geriatric psychiatrist and a member of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His practice is divided between teaching, hospital practice at Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga Hospital and Queensway Health Centre, as well as at two long term care homes. He has a speciality interest in capacity issues, including serving as an expert witness when capacity issues are litigated.
Jasmine Sweatman, our Chief Legal Officer, is a specialist in estate law and operates a practice in that area. Jasmine has published and spoken extensively on legal issues affecting estates, especially in relation to capacity issues. She is the author of several books on aspects of estate law. Working with Richard and others at the Capacity Clinic, she has helped shape approaches and tools to assist families and professionals addressing capacity issues.
In this episode we’ll discuss vulnerability and how it relates to capacity, the way in which different disciplines don’t have a common way of looking at vulnerability, and some of the initial signs of vulnerability a professional should be looking for in their clients. We’ll also talk about the advantage of developing a structured screener and so much more. Keep listening to learn more about identifying signs of vulnerability!
Capacity Conversations: Your Thoughts or Mine is a podcast about capacity and decision-making in Canada, presented by the Capacity Clinic. Each day, Canadian professionals face growing numbers of vulnerable adults or their substitute decision makers, stressing historical practices for assuring capacity when important decisions are being made. The pandemic has given us a glimpse of the future where the numbers of elderly clients, their mobility considerations, and the need for professional diligence in determining capacity are all growing. Issues requiring legal and clinical support arise frequently, and that’s where we come in. At Capacity Clinic, our mission is to improve supported decision-making and capacity evaluation. We do this by creating Canadian expertise and intellectual property, designing and developing educational programming, and supplying individual consultations from leading experts. We are also proud to have developed a best practices model for the use of video conferencing in capacity assessment. In this podcast, we’ll dive into all aspects of capacity and decision-making so that you know what to do if you’re working with, know, or are someone in need of a capacity evaluation.
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