Cognitive capacities of older adults who are asked to consent to medical treatment or to clinical research.
Knowledge about cognitive changes characteristically found in older adults provides necessary context for administering consent procedures. It should neither be assumed that most adults over a certain age are too demented to consent nor that decision-making is approached the same way by younger and older adults.
Gatz
Margaret
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Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA. gatz@usc.edu
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States