Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Sure, I will.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  It's really a gradient, because physicians and health care workers in general do capacity assessments all the time. When you're giving someone medications or performing surgery you have to ask permission first. Where it gets complex is when you have people with mental health iss

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you so much. I just get passionate.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Dementia and medical and personal as well as financial capacity—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I think part of that is recognizing that dementia is different for different people. Let me talk as a caregiver as opposed to a physician. My mother was the first female obstetrician-gynecologist and the first one of Asian descent in British Columbia. She faced a lot of racism

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much for that question. It does seem counterintuitive that the person who is spending most of his or her time with that patient would not be the one who necessarily knows the patient the best, but this has been shown in research. One study that I referenced in

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I have not done any capacity assessments for MAID, but I do capacity assessments for finances, personal decision-making and medical decision-making all the time. A lot of my patients are frail and are living with issues of potential financial abuse, as well as maybe making decisi

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. Good morning from Spain. I'd also like to thank the IT support people for making this—

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you to the IT support people, who have made this less stressful for me. Thank you to the committee for allowing me the opportunity to address my concerns regarding advance directives for MAID in people living with dementia. I am a geriatric medicine physician who has be