Edited by Gabriela Stoppe

2008

Dementia and related disorders affect the sufferers’ ability to perform activities of daily living and to make appropriate decisions about various issues relevant to their life. While there is no disagreement about these facts there is little clarity and even less consensus about the ways in which competence to make decisions should be assessed in daily practice – nor is there agreement about the levels of competence at which it is in the best interest of the people with dementia to have a guardian and receive legal protection against abuse and other mistreatment.