When someone lacks mental capacity

We use ‘you’ and ‘your’ to refer to the person receiving and paying for their care. We work under the presumption that people have the mental capacity to make their own decisions.

The Government’s website has useful information about making decisions on behalf of someone else when they lack mental capacity to do so themselves. This includes how to apply for Deputyship, which gives legal powers to make decisions on someone else’s behalf if that person lacks capacity and they have not made a Lasting Power of Attorney.

The information we provide applies equally to those who are legally appointed as an attorney or deputy as it does to the person receiving care and support.