Reading Time: 4 minutes A national seniors strategy needs to account for complexity in the aging process, including risk and vulnerability
Tag: Palliative care
Address your fear of dying, express end-of-life care wishes
Reading Time: 4 minutes As physicians, we see death made worse and more painful every day by poor advance care planning
A spirit gone, but enduring through lessons well taught
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bruce Webster defined how best to live life: with respect, humour, physical and intellectual rigour, and a willingness to take risks
Assisted dying and the dark corners of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need to learn from the lessons of history when considering assisted dying for those with disabilities – no matter how unsettling that history may be
Health-care funding reform needed to address aging population
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why we need a publicly funded insurance program for home care and long-term care
Senate feasts on Trudeau’s assisted dying bill
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to try again – this time without the bad luck, the divisions, the parliamentary brinkmanship and the flying elbows
Why we need a made-in-Canada approach to assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Canadians weigh in on Bill C-14, some will say it has gone far enough. Others will insist it must go further
Advanced directives for assisted-dying a dangerous step
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ‘quick and efficient’ decision of the parliamentary committee on assisted dying not in the best interest of the patient
Assisted suicide roll out fraught with peril
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian health facilities not equipped to deal with physician-hastened death
Assisted suicide a deadly new form of normal
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court’s Carter decision set the floor, not the ceiling, according to one proponent