Describe the distinction between a functional assessment and decisional assessment. What is the role of a social worker in each?
What will be an ideal response?
The functional assessment determines the ability of the person to care for themselves, complete the ADL’s and IADL” S and is essentially used to determine the person’s ability to live independently. A person without functional capacity may still retain the capacity to make decisions about their care and to enter into legal relationships such as contracts. The decisional assessment determines the person’s ability to provide informed consent on matters that include decisions about health care and/or property. Lack or decisional capacity requires that decisions about continued health care, residence, or changes in property require a surrogate decision maker. Once a person loses decisional capacity their rights to self-determination are terminated, but hopefully have been directed by the person before losing the capacity to make decisions.
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