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Christopher's tragic story as a vulnerable young man with autism shows clearly how the frequent Inattention to mental capacity by health and social care professionals can have devastating consequences for this vulnerable group of adults and how, when the worst happens, the misappropriation of the presumption of capacity is being used as a rationale for not investigating the circumstances of their deaths.

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This page is a summary of: Christopher's story, The Journal of Adult Protection, March 2023, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jap-11-2022-0030.
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