New Evidence on Dementia, Identity, and Decision-Making
An argument for assessing decision-making capacity in terms of personal identity, rather than cognitive functioning.

We cannot straightforwardly assume that older adults are the most vulnerable to the scams of the pandemic.
The doctrine of capacity is vague, normatively and medically challenging, and inconsistently applied.
The study, which involved an online survey of and interviews with older adults, revealed a heterogeneity of ways of thinking about capacity.