COVID-19 and the Mental Capacity Act in care homes: Perspectives from capacity professionals.

ABSTRACT: This study explores the experiences of professionals who worked with care home residents with impaired mental capacity in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores (i) how competing risks were balanced and (ii) how the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) functioned in care homes under pandemic conditions, with particular focus on its associated Deprivations of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA) systems. Between March and May 2021, we held an online survey and five focus groups aimed at professionals who worked in or with care homes during the pandemic. The study explored issues pertaining to residents with impaired mental capacity, alongside several other topics on which we report elsewhere. For this paper, we filtered data to only include res

SUBMITTER: Kuylen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9111706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature