Mental function

mental function

progressive mental impairment

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

developmental impairment | feeble-mindedness | intellectual disability | intellectual impairment | learning disability | mental deficiency | mental retardation | mental subnormality | oligophrenia | LD [Abbr.]

Non NHS residential mental health care - not in a mental nursing or registered home

NHS mental health nursing home/residential care

These substances, which act on the central nervous system, modifying mental functions, also have uses in industry or research - as active substances for medicines, for instance.

The deinstitutionalisation of mental health services and the establishment of services in primary care, community centres and general hospitals, in line with patient and family needs, can support social inclusion.

The Disability Tax Credit in its current iteration has created significant barriers for people living with mental health disabilities in the section entitled " Mental functions necessary for everyday life," which has changed markedly from previous years.

I was tasked with leading the subcommittee on mental functions, which took on reviewing the eligibility criteria for the tax credit related to mental functions and making recommendations about how these criteria could be more fairly applied by the CRA.