Subjects willing to enrol, were community-living, mobile, and mentally competent (mini mental score examination > 26/30), (Folstein et al. 1975) and gave written consent.
The patients had proved mentally competent on a test called the Mini Mental Status Examination.
She has been tested and retested and found mentally competent.
In November, Judge Richard LaPera ruled that Mr. Alexander was mentally competent to stand trial.
In their view, Mr. Wood was never mentally competent to stand trial in the first place.
They can be changed or withdrawn at any time by a mentally competent person.
But if an older adult is mentally competent and refuses help, nothing can be done.
Dr Turner questioned why the law forced a mentally competent terminally ill adult to travel abroad for an assisted death.
A federal appeals court found him mentally competent, and the Supreme Court denied his last appeal, on Tuesday.
She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but a jury found her mentally competent to stand trial.
A paranoid schizophrenic, Mr. Odighizuwa, a native of Nigeria, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
