Decision Making Representative News Today

My mother has dementia and often doesn’t make sense anymore, but she doesn’t have a power of attorney in place. Is there anything that we can do to make decisions?

Today is Adult Safeguarding Day. PATRICIA RICKARD-CLARKE, Chairperson Safeguarding Ireland calls for more people to ‘Plan Ahead’ and the reduce risk ...

Safeguarding Ireland has welcomed the commencement of new laws on assisted decision-making – which come into effect on Wednesday, 26 April. Chairperson Patricia Rickard-Clarke said: “We have good laws – now we need culture change. The public and professionals need to get informed and put these laws into practice. Doing so will prevent and reduce adult abuse and uphold our rights”. Key places to access more information are:

On 21 January 2022, the Decision Support Services ("DSS") launched its recruitment drive for Decision Making Representatives ("DMRs"). Statutory Role…

Full rollout of Assisted Decision Making legislation due in June 2022 Assessment of capacity moving away from medical sphere Amendments in relation to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 are to go to Cabinet in May and to be enacted by September this year, the inaugural Decision Support Service conference heard this morning. The Act and the Decision Support Service (DSS) set up under the legislation are due to be fully operational by June 2022. The Act is to provide a multi-tiered ...