Can anyone provide examples of lack of Capacity re Care and Support, and re Contact with others please?

Hi all,

URGENT REQUEST

I’m caring for someone with Autism who is being assessed re their Capacity re 1)Care and Support (Supported Living) and 2)Contact with others. An Adult, late fifties.

No DOLS in place and not Sectioned.

A. The person I care for does have Capacity in other areas, but not in these two mentioned above, I feel. I’m finding it hard to understand what parts of Care annd Support, and Contact with others hard to clarify might apply as examples. So, any examples (a good long list would be so helpful!) that you can think of would be so useful.

B. I understand there’s the four criteria to assess someone’s to assess Capacity: Understand information, retain it, weigh info up, and communicate the decision …. is that correct?

All input is greatly appreciated! HuggingPraySparkles  Tx

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  • In a nutshell I get up soem days full of beans and capabilty yet on otehr days all that deserts me and it's really, really hard to get rganised. some tasks like filling in an "Applicatn" are simply beyond my abilty to do to an acceptable standard.

    Overall I find it very hard to enjoy life, other people and if I open my mouth and express myself someone usually takes offence. This suggests very stongly to me that I am the problem and not everyoen else.

    Social life appears to be full of double standards, the vast majority of which apparently work AGAINST me. As a teenager it was so bad I actually wondered briefly before getting a grip of myself if everyone else was secretly psychic and I was not!

    Perhaps a good example of teh difference is that for 30 years or so I've been self-prescribing my own spectacles form teh "reading glasses section. (My deficiencies are simple and pretty symettrical so this works for me, BUT in order to get best optical acuity I have several strengths f spectacles which I use as neccesary. I tend to keep the little dioptre lable on so as to make identification easier, it's usually right up top left of my vison field in an area I don't use. I simply don't understand why practically every normie I meet has to point this out in a faintly patronising "do you know it's there?" sort of way. It clearly makes them feel "smart" in some way, whereas I wonder eery time, A: What business is it of theirs? and B: Do they not consider I might have a REASON that isn't simple forgetfullness or absent mindedness? I find it annnoying to the point that I have to choke off a sarky reply an occasionally the urge to choke out the enquirer, and instead patiently educate them about how dioptres work, and how I prefer to own multiple £2.50 sets of specs and thus always have a pair to had of the optimum strength to give me best acuity for the task at hand, rather than a single £100 pair that is the best compromise for all tasks and that I'll spend more time looking for than wearing. I can lose or damage 40 sets of "readers" for that £100 quiid, but in practice  avout 5 pairs seems t be the charm thta means Ive always got a set close by when I forget to put the pair on that are next to the bed and find myself downstairs urgently needng to read something.

  • em…I think you’ve posted this in 5he wrong section? Sorry to hear about your changes, take care 

  • sorry typo .. ‘challenges’ 

  • Sorry, I thought I was giving examples of "lack of capacity".Please accept my apology.

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