Mental Incompetence Dorothy Drury suffered from dementia and chronic confusion. When she became unable to manage her own affairs, including decisions about medical and financial matters, her son Eddie arranged for her to move to an assisted-living facility. During admission, she signed a residency agreement, which included an arbitration clause. After she sustained injuries in a fall at the facility, a suit was filed to recover damages. The facility asked the court to compel arbitration. Was Dorothy bound to the residency agreement? 1. What element of a valid contract is at iss

Mental Incompetence Dorothy Drury suffered from dementia and chronic confusion. When she became unable to manage her own affairs, including decisions about medical and financial matters, her son Eddie arranged for her to move to an assisted-living facility. During admission, she signed a residency agreement, which included an arbitration clause. After she sustained injuries in a fall at the facility, a suit was filed to recover damages. The facility asked the court to compel arbitration.

Was Dorothy bound to the residency agreement? No, Dorothy was not bound to the residency agreement

Dorothy is suffering from Dementia and chronic confusion; Dementia occurs when thinking and social symptoms interferes with daily function of an individuals and Chronic confusion is a state in which there is a decreased capacity for intellectual thought processes which manifest as disturbances of memory ,behaviors and orientation.

Dorothy is mental incompetence, though there is a contract made on her behalf i.e the one made by her son while she was been admitted in the residency, there is not obligation for her to bound with the contact, the court will decided that she does not abide by the residency agreement since it was Eddie(Her son) who signed the agreement on her behalf has no authority, therefore she is not bound by the agreement.

1. What element of a valid contract is at is: Capacity

The element that constitute a contract to be valid must involve an individual who understand the nature, purpose , consequences of the contract and at the time of signing the contract and the individual must be lucid.

Dorothy is been judged mentally incompetent so it is not possible  for he to enter into a agreement, therefore any agreement she enter into based on her mental state is consider void.

so if you eat a 2000-calorie diet, you should aim for about 225 to 325 grams of carbs per day.

but if you need to lose weight, you will get much faster results eating around 50 to 150 grams of carbs.

in fact, a popular alternative called the low-carb diet has been shown to be much more effective for weight loss than the high-carb diet that has been recommended for the past few decades.

this diet restricts your intake of carbohydrates like sugars and starches (breads, pasta, etc.) and replaces them with protein, fat and healthy vegetables.

studies show that low-carb diets reduce your appetite and make you eat fewer calories and lose weight pretty much effortlessly, as long as you manage to keep the carbs down (1trusted source).

in studies where low-carb and low-fat diets are compared, the researchers need to actively restrict calories in the low-fat groups to make the results comparable, but the low-carb groups still usually win (2trusted source, 3trusted source).

low-carb diets also have benefits that go way beyond just weight loss. they lower blood sugar, blood pressure and triglycerides. they raise hdl (the good) and improve the pattern of ldl (the bad) cholesterol (4trusted source, 5trusted source).

low-carb diets cause more weight loss and improve health more than the calorie restricted, low-fat diet still recommended by many people. this is pretty much a scientific fact at this point (6, 7, 8trusted source).

explanation:

there are many studies showing that low-carb diets are more effective and healthier than the low-fat diet that is still recommended by many people.