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to a person who is legally incapacitated must be in accordance with a predefined and phased plan, and the person’s representative must also give consent.
Nine forms of involuntary care, as referred to in the Care and Coercion Act are as follows:
1. administering fluid, food or medication; performing medical checks or other medical interventions, or applying other therapeutic measures in order to treat a psychogeriatric condition, a mental disability or related psychological disorder, or a combination of such, or treatment of a somatic condition relating to a condition, disability or disorder;
2. restricting a person’s freedom of movement;
3. locking a person in;
4. exercising supervision over a person;
5. searching a person’s clothing or body;
6. searching a person’s residence or accommodation for behaviour-affecting substances or dangerous objects;
7. monitoring for the presence of behaviour-affecting substances;
8. restricting a person’s freedom to determine his own life, including restrictions on use of means of communication, with the result that the person has to do or is unable to do something; and
9. restricting the freedom to receive visitors.
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