Dr. Melissa Andrew at the Medical Assistance in Dying Committee

On May 5th, 2022. See this statement in context.

May 5th, 2022 / 7:35 p.m.

Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Health Authority, As an Individual

Yes.

This provides an opportunity to advocate action on the national dementia strategy. Just as we talk about the need for strengthening mental health care in the context of MAID for mental disorders and we worry about people seeking MAID for physical conditions when palliative symptom management is suboptimal, and we appropriately see this as a time to call for strengthening those services, we must also see that this issue of advance requests for MAID is intimately tied with the quality of dementia care in Canada.

Thanks.

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