While the provinces squabble over whether the federal government should attach strings to health dollars, other countries have optimized a whole range of tools to help middle-aged people bear the financial and emotional burden of supporting a parent in his home.
Continue reading Francesca Grosso: Help those caring for mom and dadEmployees of the Centre d’hébergement Denis-Benjamin-Viger in Île-Bizard plan to stage a demonstration Monday outside the long-term-care facility to protest against staff cuts and building problems they say are significantly harming the quality of life of the elderly residents.
Continue reading Conditions criticized at care centre for the elderly in Île-BizardVulnerable people need to be protected from being induced to seek assisted death as “shame relief,” a former Ontario Human Rights Commission chief commissioner told a conference on assisted dying in Ottawa on Saturday.
Continue reading Beware of assisted dying as ‘shame relief,’ former human rights commissioner saysA bill proposed in Washington D.C., modeled after Oregon’s assisted suicide law, would allow terminally ill patients with less than six months to live to obtain a life-ending drug to be ingested at home. It has faced some resistance.
Continue reading Veteran with Terminal Brain Cancer Explains Why He’s Against Assisted SuicideOn October 5th, the health committee of Washington DC’s state council will vote on a Dignity in Dying Act brought forward by one of its Democratic members. Like many proposed doctor-assisted-dying laws debated across America in the past year, it is modelled on that of Oregon.
Continue reading More states are considering laws granting the terminally ill the right to die