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End of Life Decision Making, Policy and the Criminal Justice System: Untrained Carers Assuming Responsibility (UCARes) and Their Uncertain Legal Liabilities [PDF]

, 2006
This article will explore some previously unrecognised legal and ethical issues associated with informal care-giving and criminal justice in the context of end of life decision-making.
Biggs, Hazel, Mackenzie, Robin
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Medical Assistance in Dying—Unanswered Questions [PDF]

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2018
Joseph L, Verheijde, Mohamed Y, Rady
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Improving Care at the End of Life [PDF]

, 2011
Reviews RWJF's investments in improving end-of-life care, impact on the field, and lessons learned, including the need to coordinate objectives, integrate strategies, tie strategies to policy changes and incentives, and link communications and ...
Abby Spector, Elizabeth Thompson, Patricia Patrizi   +2 more
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Perspectives of Canadian health leaders on the relationship between medical assistance in dying and palliative and end-of-life care services: a qualitative study

Canadian Medical Association Journal
Background: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in 2016, but coordination of MAiD and palliative and end-of-life care (PEOLC) services remains underdeveloped. We sought to understand the perspectives of health leaders across Canada
Gilla K. Shapiro, Eryn Tong, R. Nissim, Camilla Zimmermann, Sara Allin, Jennifer L. Gibson, Sharlane C L Lau, Madeline Li, Gary Rodin   +8 more
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Le jugement éthique dans l’évaluation des demandes d’aide médicale à mourir au Canada et au Québec : que nous apprennent les autres juridictions ?

Sociologies, 2023
This paper concerns the ethical judgment that lies at the heart of assessing requests for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada and Quebec, namely is it ethically right to help the person requesting assistance to end his or her life?
Mona Gupta, Samuel Blouin
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Drawing a Line Between Killing and Letting Die: The Law, and Law Reform, on Medically Assisted Dying [PDF]

, 1993
Traditional medical ethics and law draw a sharp distinction between allowing a patient to die and helping her die. Withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, such as by abating technological nutrition, hydration or respiration, will cause ...
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Assisted death in eating disorders: a systematic review of cases and clinical rationales

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundAssisted dying for reasons solely related to an eating disorder (ED) has occurred in multiple countries, including those which restrict the practice to individuals with a terminal condition.
Chelsea Roff, Catherine Cook-Cottone
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Care considerations in medical assistance in dying for persons with mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition: a qualitative study of patient and family perspectives

BMC Psychiatry
Persons with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition are eligible to access medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in a small number of countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Switzerland.
Vicky Stergiopoulos, Hamer Bastidas-Bilbao, Mona Gupta, Daniel Z. Buchman, Donna E. Stewart, T. Rajji, Alexander I. F. Simpson, M. R. van Kesteren, Vivien Cappe, David Castle, Roslyn Shields, L. Hawke   +11 more
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Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers [PDF]

, 2003
This report looks at issues of social justice, access, and public policy in hospice and palliative care. As it examines the issues from the perspectives of social justice and fairness, it also recommends ways in which the definition of hospice can be ...
Bruce Jennings, Carol D, Mary Ann Baily, True Ryndes   +3 more
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Communication and support from health-care professionals to families, with dependent children, following the diagnosis of parental life-limiting illness : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Communication between parents and their children about parental life-limiting illness is stressful. Parents want support from health-care professionals; however, the extent of this support is not known.
Boland, Jason W., Fearnley, Rachel
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