Quebec's Health Department says it will be ready to meet the expected demand for advanced applications for medical assistance in dying when it begins accepting requests next week.
RELATED - There is a growing push for Canada to allow "advanced consent" for medical assistance in dying , which would allow a competent person to request MAID before they lose the ability to consent. As Neetu Garcha reports, the federal government is taking longer than expected to implement the legislation, leaving those living with dementia waiting in agony – Feb 1, 2024Dr.
On Oct. 30 Quebec will become the first province to allow a person with a serious and incurable illness to request that a medically assisted death be administered months or even years in the future — when their condition leaves them unable to consent to the procedure.Quebec chose to expand its MAID program to help people with illnesses such as Alzheimer’s — without waiting for Ottawa to update the Criminal Code.
Health professionals, they said, would have to determine whether a patient who is agitated or uncooperative at the moment of assisted death was resisting because it’s a common symptom of a neurocognitive illness or because they were refusing the MAID treatment.
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