Second, to be incapacitated the person’s physical, mental, or cognitive condition must be severe enough to render the person incapacitated. Having a condition that limits a person is not enough – the condition must limit the person so much that he or she “lacks capacity to manage the person’s essential requirements for food, clothing, shelter, safety or other care.” For example, can the person decide where to live, and live safely alone? Can he or she decide where, when, and what to eat? Can the person make medical decisions? The opinion of a physician or psychiatrist will almost always be necessary to support a finding of incapacity.