How To Address The Most Overlooked Legal Consequences Of Dementia
According to Alzheimer’s Australia, there are nearly half a million Australians currently living with dementia, and by 2025, this number is expected to triple. How should families of vulnerable older people help them to protect themselves and their assets?
There are several different types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Dementia from Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and others.
Some of the early effects are mild. Symptoms can seem to come and go, and people can have good days and bad days.
In the legal world, there is an emphasis on something called “capacity”, which usually refers to a person’s “testamentary capacity”.