This guide gives relatives and those affected by it orientation: If you get so seriously ill mentally that you can no longer look after your own affairs on your own and need a legal guardian. Behind every care process there is a personal story of suffering with often dramatic consequences. The anonymized and pseudonymized case studies in this book show the diversity of fates that can lead to a care process. The most common reasons are mental illness. The explanations of the clinical pictures such as dementia, delirium, delirium, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, pedophilia, addictions, personality disorder, anorexia, ADHD, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsession are written so that they are understandable even without medical knowledge. Tips for relatives provide valuable information on how to deal with those affected. The care in Austria and Switzerland is also briefly presented. 

Written for: 

Relatives and those affected; Supervisors, supervision judges, lawyers, employees of care centers, health authorities and doctors can read along. 

The author: 

Dr. med. Thomas Lorz, neurologist, supervisor and lecturer, has also worked as a neurological expert for local and social courts in the past few decades, for which he has prepared more than 4,000 expert opinions during this time.

Product Details

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; August 13, 2021
• Language: German
• ISBN: 9783662633144
• ISBN: 9783662633151