Testamentary capacity assessment in dementia using artificial intelligence: prospects and challenges.

ABSTRACT: Testamentary capacity (TC), a set of capacities involved in making a valid Will, has become prominent in capacity evaluations due to the demographic increase in older persons and associated increase in cognitive impairment. The assessment of contemporaneous TC follows the criteria derived from the Banks v Goodfellow case, which do not bind capacity solely on the basis of presence of a cognitive disorder. Although effort is being made for establishing more objective criteria for TC judgment, variations in situational complexity call for incorporating the different circumstances of the testator in capacity assessment. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as statistical machine learning have been used in forensic psychiatry mainly for the prediction of aggressive behavior and recidi

SUBMITTER: Economou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10264688 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature