| He approached and offered me his arm, and so we neared his house, which was a new and capacitous stone building of handsome appearance. |
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| Ultimately the court reaffirmed the right of a capacitous patient to refuse medical treatment, even if that refusal will result in their death. |
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| It strips away a lot of his cortex, but it also strips from him much of the angst that, when he was capacitous, made his life hell. |
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| Advance directives require the person making them not only to be capacitous but also to have autonomy. |
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| As well as liberty and consent, the other key issue discussed in this chapter is the vulnerability of those who are very young, very old or less capacitous for other reasons. |
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| Clinicians referred patients they judged capacitous and suitable. |
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| It was unclear from the evidence what severity of depression would be considered likely to have an impact upon capacitous decision making and how this might be determined. |
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