title: Cognitive capacities of older adults who are asked to consent to medical treatment or to clinical research.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA. gatz@usc.edu
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gatz
mesh_terms: 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