The development of guardianship system in China has a history many years. However, recent years, with the increasing aging Chinese society, systems past have been unable to adapt current changes. This article starts from status quo China, and analyzes situation problems existing China. At same time, this also studies related issues, aiming protect due interests wards.

Background An overview of compulsory admission and civil commitment in Germany is presented. Legal, administrative, and methodological aspects are described. The expiry of compulsory admission or retention in a closed psychiatric ward is not strictly identical to legal commitment. In Germany, civil commitment (a form of guardianship) is regulated on a nationwide basis. Public commitment (throug...

History of the Patient from official documents The patient, Z., was born in February 1926, and in 1933 at the age of 7 was graded educationally defective. Until 1942 he attended special schools, but he was then charged with "feloniously stealing a plane and two chisels of the value together of twenty-six shillings". This precipitated action under the Mental Deficiency Act, and he was placed und...

Privacy has become an issue larger than celebrity evasion of the paparazzi. While academic health research has observed strict vigilance in the guardianship of health information databases, new legislation faced by all organizations raises the bar. Short of building a moat to secure precious data, research organizations, such as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), are introdu...

Independent functioning is not simply the ability to do something, but also the ability to decide what to do. It is not only the ability to take care of oneself. It is also the ability to take responsibility for oneself. Autonomy and independence do not grow out of being told what to do and when to do it. It is only by having his needs considered, by becoming a participant in the decision-makin...

A case presentation indicating the importance of “happiness” in childhood causing memory block until the patent presented with probable mixed vascular and neurodegenerative memory loss at 60 years of age is presented to highlight the role of emotional factors in causing the disease. The question of whether Alzheimer’s disease is an adaptability disorder is raised, given the patient blocked out ...