``Mental Capacity - Updating New Zealand's Law and Practice'', has just been published. Her research involved comparative analysis of the English Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its Code of Practice. The 2014 New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship winner travelledto the United Kingdom and recently completed a review of New Zealand's adult guardianship law concerning people with impaired mental capacity arising from dementia, learning disabilities, mental illness or brain injury. New Zealand's law had been enacted 30 years ago and was ``inadequate to respond to the explosion of elder care and the needs of older adults''. This included people who were not subject to compulsory care under mental health law but lived in secure dementia units, or were high-needs young adults with learning disabilities living in supported care in the community.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 09, 2016 18:00 UTC