mental health and the right to choose
Written by marian on May 12, 2009
Mental health consumers can very quickly lose their right to participate in decision making. Once people are deemed incapable of consenting or are unwell, they are often excluded from meaningful participation in life and treatment decisions. Joining us tonight on Done by Law is Sara Clarke, Project Worker at the Mental Health Legal Centre to discuss how advance directives might work and why they are important. Advance directives or ‘living wills’ as they are sometimes known, are one way that consumers can seek to maintain empowerment and dignity over their own lives in a way that will in both the short and long term keep them well.
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