Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Absolutely not. What I see much more often is that family members dissuade their families from having MAID. That is much more common. I've never seen a case of anybody pushing someone into MAID. You need two assessors, and with two separate assessments, you would absolutely be

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I think so, yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thanks. That's a good question. Saskatchewan actually has a centralized MAID program. We have really good access throughout the province. We have people in most areas of the province. There is now funding for the assessors and providers to go out, and their time is reimbursed.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Absolutely, and you know what? Jocelyn talked about that. It's going to be really important to have exactly what that person's wishes are at that time. It's also important to have that person meet with an informed person, a physician or a nurse, who knows what dementia looks li

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  We talk about dementia always being terrible, but it's not always. We have people in our good nursing homes who are singing and dancing along. They can't recognize the families, but they're still having some quality of life. It's not what they anticipated, but they're still havin

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  It would certainly to help me to know what their thoughts were to start with, but I also don't think that the person would be able to necessarily predict whether they were suffering or not, because they're not there. That person does change. It's a person whose whole personal, em

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thanks. That's a good question. I think it depends on what's wrong with a person. If we go with Jocelyn's idea that we only have these for someone who's had a diagnosis, if somebody has had a diagnosis of dementia, then they probably need to redo this every year, because they wi

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  No, the longer the time is between a request and the actual event, the harder it is to anticipate how one feels and how one interacts with the world. I think it's possible to have an informed consent when it's for a very short period of time, but the longer the time gets, the m

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. Thanks for the wonderful presentations I've heard so far. I'd like to say I'm a geriatric psychiatrist. I see and work with people with dementia. I very much agree with many of these comments about personhood and developing environments where people can liv