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separately and call them by some more descriptive term. I
think we are going to have this problem as long as we are
lumping together disparate groups of people and that is
where the problem lies.
DR. CHILDRESS: But we are interested, in part,
in what they share and it is how we described what level
used for what they share that becomes critical for the
report.
DR. SCOTT-JAMES: But what they share is not
really always shared because some of the persons covered
under this chapter would be incapacitated almost all the
time. Some others would be rarely incapacitated. We even
put children in here and we tried to fix that a bit by
referring to younger children but we even put children in
here who are developmentally appropriate in their decision
making. So it is just --
MR. CAPRON: That is one of the reasons we
dropped impairment.
DR. SCOTT-JONES: Right.
DR. CHILDRESS: Zeke -- oh, sorry, I missed the
comment.
MR. CAPRON: Well, that is one of the reasons
we dropped impairment because a child of seven who does not
have an adult's decision making capacity is not impaired,