Book of the Week - 19 January 2026

Published Date: 19th January 2026

January's Topic of the Month is Safeguarding & Mental Capacity and our first "Book of the Week" for 2026 ties in to this topic.

The Mental Capacity Act (2005) provides health and legal professionals with an academic framework to assess and evaluate an individual's ability to make a decision, but in practice, mental capacity assessments are often misunderstood and poorly conducted.

Grandpa on a Skateboard is a practical book for health and legal professionals that uses real-life case studies and provides clear, jargon-free guidance to simplify and explain the assessment process.

It has helped thousands of practitioners understand and improve their assessments of mental capacity. This fully updated third edition also covers 'virtual' assessments using video conferencing tools and how to deal with fluctuating mental capacity.

If you would like to borrow this book you can login to our catalogue https://now.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=70447and reserve it or if you have not got a library barcode then you can email us library@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk