“’Aggressive’ advance directive would allow patients to decline food, water at end of dementia battle,” by Kimberly Marselas, McKnight’s LTC News
Quote:
“A New York group that supports aid-in-dying has approved a new document allowing patients to record in advance that they’ll want to stop eating and drinking if they develop severe dementia. … Now questions are swirling about the directive’s legal standing, and if it is determined legal after almost-certain court battles, whether private facilities would agree to accept it.”
LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform): That’s one way to reduce long-term care.
Aggressive’ advance directive would allow patients to decline food, water at end of dementia battle
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