Incompetent means an individual who is incapable of taking care of the individual’s self or property because of a mental or physical illness or disability, mental retardation, or senility.
Mentally incapacitated means that a person is rendered temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling his or her conduct whether this condition is produced by illness, defect, the influence of a substance or from some other cause. S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-651(f).
Medically incapacitated means a person who is incapacitated as a result of prescribed sedatives, anesthesia, or other medication.
Physically incapacitated means that a person has a bodily impairment or handicap that substantially limits the person’s ability to resist or flee.
Mentally ill means having a mental illness.