There are 6 steps that qualify someone to be deprived of their liberty:

• Being older than 18
• If someone can not make decisions about the proposed restrictions for their own best interests
• The patient has a mental disorder
• The deprivation of liberty restrictions trying to be put in place is actually in the patient’s best interest and they are rejecting it
• Query whether the patient should be referred to the Mental Capacity Act?
• The restrictions would not be in their best interest