Allied Health Professionals’ Role in Determining a Person’s Financial Capacity Within Canadian Mental Health and Legal Systems: A Multi-Method Critical Inquiry
Principal Investigator: Sofia Salsi
Research Supervisors: Dr Lisa Engel and Dr. Ruth Barclay
Other Co-investigators: Dr. Sabrina Demetrioff, Dr. Mohammad Khan, and Brandon Trask
This study is examining allied health professionals’ roles in medical-legal financial competency/capacity assessments of those living with mental health disorders. The purpose of this study is to explore financial capacity assessment processes and identify factors that inform assessment and challenges experienced with this type of assessment. Additionally, the study will compare the role of allied health professionals across three provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario). Allied health professionals, including occupational therapists, will engage in individual interviews with researchers, and have the opportunity to participate in multidisciplinary focus groups.
Target audience for participation: 1) Occupational therapists who currently work or have previously worked in a setting where they have a role in medical-legal financial competency assessments and have been involved in financial competency assessments for individuals living with a mental health disorder. 2) Occupational therapists who are or were in the past formally trained as provincial capacity assessors.
Participate: If interested, contact primary researcher Sofia Salsi at
salsis@myumanitoba.ca or 204-789-3419.