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	This chapter covers the law on consent, particularly as it relates to health care and care plans, and personal care matters in residential care. It introduces the mental capacity or capability needed to make specific decisions that frequently come up in residential care and the relationship between consent and capacity. [Consent in specific circumstances including visitors, restraints, medications, and monitoring technology are described in detail in the Chapter Four -Legal Issues When Living in Residential Care].		This chapter covers the law on consent, particularly as it relates to health care and care plans, and personal care matters in residential care. It introduces the mental capacity or capability needed to make specific decisions that frequently come up in residential care and the relationship between consent and capacity. [Consent in specific circumstances including visitors, restraints, medications, and monitoring technology are described in detail in the Chapter Four -Legal Issues When Living in Residential Care].