Dr Rajiv Menon is a consultant psychiatrist with over 30 years’ experience in the care of older adults. After working for six years as a physician/geriatrician, he switched to psychiatry in 1988 and trained at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals. During this period he also worked at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, where he was awarded a Research Fellowship for his work on MRI scans. On return to the UK, Dr Menon worked at the Institute of Psychiatry and obtained an M.Phil. from King’s College, London. He was appointed consultant psychiatrist for older adults at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in 1995, and retired from the NHS after 20 years as a consultant. He currently divides his time between tribunal work, medico-legal work and private practice. Dr Menon has considerable expertise in all aspects of older adult psychiatry, with a special interest in the overlap between physical and mental health. He also has an interest in assessing testamentary capacity (both in life and retrospectively from records). He is multilingual, speaking fluent English, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu.

Dr Menon specialises in testamentary capacity of older adults (aged over 50) including:

• Testamentary Capacity Assessments
• Retrospective Capacity Assessments

Assessment

Rajiv provides thorough testamentary capacity assessments. He aims to see you within a matter of days from referral and can see you at your home or at our consulting rooms. Rajiv also provides retrospective capacity assessments of the deceased from medical and other records. Specialised in mental and physical health, his binocular approach to testamentary capacity is unique.