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The incapacity crisis – a nation unprepared
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There has been growing concern in the legal profession, and amongst some of SFE’s partnership organisations, that people are not planning ahead or indeed having necessary conversations with their loved ones. These conversations include wishes, beliefs, values and feelings with regard to end of life care and medical treatments, as well as how they would want to be treated in specific situations where they were unable to express their views due to an accident, medial emergency or to cognitive impairment.
In response to these concerns, Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) and leading think tank Centre for Future Studies
produced a report warning that millions of people are leaving important end of life decisions in the hands of strangers. The study found that the ever-increasing number of people living with dementia, combined with the failure to plan, exposes a looming incapacity crisis.
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