endobj Analyses of real-world cases reveal the very real potential of ethical violations, as in a recent case where the final decision regarding euthanasia in a patient with dementia was taken by physicians, despite the patients apparent ambivalence, and included the surreptitious administration of a sedative to the patient prior to euthanasia (Jongsma et al., 2019; Miller et al., 2019). J. Alzheimers Dis. Tiel, C., Sudo, F. K., Alves, G. S., Ericeira-Valente, L., Moreira, D. M., Laks, J., et al. Options to avoid prolonged dying are limited since advanced dementia patients cannot qualify for Medical Aid in Dying. Individualistic societies value personal responsibility, self-image, and autonomy, and privilege the individual and their immediate social circle over the wider community. J. The principle of first do no harm should be kept in mind when approaching this issue; it should be understood from the foregoing discussion that harm in this case applies not only to patients or physicians but to the physician-patient relationship, the healthcare system, and even society at large. Sarah Dobec, a communications specialist with the pro-euthanasia lobby group, said in a letter to The B.C. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the Medical Aid in Dying: What Matters Most? endobj A complete list of these variables, the rationale for their inclusion, and the data sources for each variable is provided in Table 1 (Gielen et al., 2009; Tanuseputro, 2017; Pew Research Center, 2018; van Wijngaarden et al., 2019; Karumathil and Tripathi, 20202020; Hofstede Insights, 2021; Inglehart et al., 2021; The World Bank, 2021; Tran et al., 2021). Case report on the legal assurance of Advance Care Planning in collective culture. 41 0 obj Am J Bioeth. endobj Keywords: 2020 Dec;23(4):705-715. doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09965-0. Dworkin on dementia: elegant theory, questionable policy. Likewise, a more recent study presented Israeli caregivers who had provided end-of-life care to a relative with two end-of-life scenarios, one related to advanced dementia and one to physical disability. Psychol. Extra 9, 217226. capacity; dementia; euthanasia; living wills/advance directives. doi:10.1177/1471301220922766, Dening, K. H., Jones, L., and Sampson, E. L. (2013). Philos. Fourth, the finality of ending a patients life means that any decisions made in this regard by a third party are problematic, and caution is necessary. Dement Neuropsychol. (2020). J. The Expert Working Group on the issue of mental health as a sole underlying condition disagreed on a number of issues. In addition to impairing the quality of life of both patients and caregivers, some of these symptoms particularly agitation, aggression and hallucinations are associated with a marked elevation in the burden faced by caregivers (Kim et al., 2021). (2019). 2015 Aug;41(8):701-7. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102024. As with Krags (Krag, 2014) analysis of a similar situation in high-income men, such considerations suggest that, depending on social and cultural contexts, groups that are thought of as privileged may actually be paradoxically vulnerable to an indiscriminate adoption of euthanasia or PAS. Answers to specific questions about your preferences for care if you become unable to speak for yourself. On the other hand, disagreements and disapprovals of this practice among physicians and the general public, who are more aware of concrete realities and of the illusory nature of these safeguards, have been well documented across several settings and countries (Owen et al., 2001; Pereira, 2011; Wicher and Meeker, 2012; Alsolamy, 2014; van Wijmen et al., 2015; Cohen-Mansfield and Brill, 2020; Bravo et al., 2021; Schuurmans et al., 2021). CMAJ 189, E101E105. By documenting your desires and care goals when you are well enough to make decisions, you remove a burden from your loved ones and exert more control on future decisions. The .gov means its official. Though some authors have responded to such proposals with a cautious and qualified acceptance, they have also highlighted the ambiguities and ethical dilemmas inherent in such proposals (Deodhar, 2016; Jakhar et al., 2020; Mukhopadhyay and Banerjee, 2021). We also recommend checking your state governments website for the most up-to-date forms. eCollection 2022 Apr. Medical Ethics Issues in Dementia and End of Life. J. Med. This site needs JavaScript to work properly. 2022-06-16T13:46:59-07:00 Sci. 50, 12411256. Pullman, D. (2004). Access personal subscriptions, purchases, paired institutional or society access and free tools such as email alerts and saved searches. % Fifth, as these findings are based on country-level data, they cannot be extrapolated to individual residents of a given country. Groenewoud AS, Leijten E, van den Oever S, van Sommeren J, Boer TA. WebAdvance Directives, Dementia, and PhysicianAssisted Death. A multi-centre, quasi-experimental study was conducted to test the feasibility and acceptability of a theory The name and contact information of your healthcare agent or proxy. Palliat. The forms and questions asked vary a bit from state to state. Affect Disord. Responses to the dementia scenario were ambivalent, with only 48% of the sample (40 of 83 subjects) expressing a clear preference for PAS (Cohen-Mansfield and Brill, 2020). Med. J. Med. Second, the presence of treatment-resistant behavioural symptoms is not unique to dementia, but is observed in several neuropsychiatric conditions, including traumatic brain injury (Rahmani et al., 2021), schizophrenia (Campana et al., 2021), and mood disorders (Fekadu et al., 2009; Fornaro et al., 2020). endobj - Farr Law Firm. Additionally, you can complete and upload your advance directive and any other advance-care planning documents to the U.S. Advance Care Plan Registry. Health Prog. By issuing an advance treatment directive, an autonomous person can formally express what kinds of treatment she wishes and does not wish to receive in case she becomes ill or injured and unable to, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Watson, B., Tatangelo, G., and McCabe, M. (2019). Most Are Deficient, and many Have Been Met with Hostile Judicial Interpretations. Moral Opinion Polarization and the Erosion of Trust. It is argued that the doubts about advance directives and euthanasia raise more concern about the combined practices than about either euthanasia or advance directives separately. (2007). Can. 32, 247254. Front. Med. doi:10.3390/ijerph8124550, Scassellati, C., Ciani, M., Maj, C., Geroldi, C., Zanetti, O., Gennarelli, M., et al. Data on both these variables was obtained from the World Bank database (2018) (Inglehart et al., 2021). Cost Analysis of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. Second, though the advanced or severe nature of dementia may be evident in certain cases, there are others where it may be difficult to distinguish between early and late or moderate and severe cases (Nicolini, 2021). Ethics 2021, 107308. doi:10.1136/medethics-2021-107308. Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. PLoS One 14, e0214724. doi:10.2190/YH2B-8VVE-LA5A-02R2, Pereira, J. It is of course possible that Krags argument would be more applicable to developed and industrialized nations, while concerns related to misuse of PAS in vulnerable groups may be more applicable in lower-income nations with greater economic inequality and resource scarcity. doi:10.1191/0269216303pm673oa, Mathews, J. J., Hausner, D., Avery, J., Hannon, B., Zimmermann, C., and Al-Awamer, A. WebPhysician-assisted suicide and advance directives concerning life support. The majority of caregivers (11/21, 52.4%) denied any such ideations or behaviour (O'Dwyer et al., 2016). Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. J. Environ. J. 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Public Health 17, 4989. doi:10.3390/ijerph17144989, Madadin, M., Al Sahwan, H. S., Altarouti, K. K., Altarouti, S. A., Al Eswaikt, Z. S., and Menezes, R. G. (2020). Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies 2019 Feb;45(2):95-96. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105031. Early documentation also prevents questions later about whether you had the capacity to make the directive when you did. WebAdvance Directives, Dementia, and PhysicianAssisted Death Paul T. Menzel& Bonnie Steinbock Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics41 (2):484-500 (2013) Download options PhilArchive copy Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy Papers currently archived: 70,561 External links From the Publisher via CrossRef (no proxy) Dementia (London) 20, 10581079. After Providing End of Life Care to Relatives, what Care Options Do Family Caregivers Prefer for Themselves? End of Life Care and Reactions to Death in African-American and white Family Caregivers of Relatives with Alzheimer's Disease. J Am Geriatr Soc. JAMA Netw. Physicians' Characteristics and Attitudes towards Medically Assisted Dying for Non-competent Patients with Dementia. Perimortal initiatives: issues in foregoing life-sustaining treatment, suicide, and assisted suicide. The current understanding of advanced dementia is outlined and research priorities for the next decade are identified, including designing and testing interventions that promote high-quality, goal-directed care; health policy research to identify strategies that incentivize cost-effective and evidence-based care; implementation studies of promising interventions and policies. Your primary and alternate healthcare agents or proxies. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124320, Sulmasy, D. P., Finlay, I., Fitzgerald, F., Foley, K., Payne, R., and Siegler, M. (2018). Health Care Poor Underserved 23, 2858. J. (2021). Front. Ann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). WebSign in. It is a good idea to carry a copy of your advance directive when traveling. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb01420.x, Kenning, C., Daker-White, G., Blakemore, A., Panagioti, M., and Waheed, W. (2017). Second, it is difficult to evaluate whether an individual patients wish for PAS is truly autonomous or is the result of coercion, either by family members, by professionals, or by broader socio-economic pressures. Non-faith-based Arguments against Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Results consistent with this finding have been obtained from earlier research in Poland, Germany and the United States (Kemmelmeier et al., 2002). <> 45, 375377. Of these, 50% to 60% have Alzheimer's disease. 74, 7983. 16 0 obj doi:10.1080/13607863.2019.1697201, Chakraborty, R., El-Jawahri, A. R., Litzow, M. R., Syrjala, K. L., Parnes, A. D., and Hashmi, S. K. (2017). Bioethics for clinicians: 11. Further, it is argued that since informed consent may be impossible once this disintegration has occurred, such an option should not be restricted only to advanced cases (Cipriani and Di Fiorino, 2019), and should be included in advance directives (Menzel and Steinbock, 2013) under the principle of precedent autonomy (Groves, 2006). Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. This is seen as a means of preserving their dignity when faced with disintegration of their identity and autonomy (Reagan et al., 2003; Gmez-Vrseda and Gastmans, 2021). Advance Directives, Dementia, and Physician-Assisted Death. Instead, the medical field should work in collaboration with governmental, social welfare and patient advocacy services to ensure optimal physical, emotional and financial support to this group of patients and their caregivers. <> <> It may be appropriate to appoint a legal guardian to make decisions about property or finances, for example, yet leave other decisionsperhaps personal care, food, shelter and medical careto the person with Alzheimers disease. An official website of the United States government. We have the right to make our own healthcare decisionseven when we have Alzheimers disease. To articulate and document your wishes concerning medical treatment should you lose decision-making ability. More general statements about your values regarding end-of-life care. Similarly, a sample of the Dutch general public, 40% of respondents considered PAS unacceptable even in advanced dementia; disapproval was stronger in older subjects and in those with higher self-reported religiosity (Brinkman-Stoppelenburg et al., 2020). Linacre Q. Received: 16 November 2021; Accepted: 07 December 2021;Published: 22 December 2021. EU-SELECT was positively correlated with life expectancy, gross national income, social capital and cultural individualism, while negative correlations were observed for religiosity and for the cultural dimensions of power distance and uncertainty avoidance. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01996.x, Anderson, J., Eppes, A., and ODwyer, S. (2019). First prosecution of a Dutch doctor since the Euthanasia Act of 2002: what does the verdict mean? First, data on attitudes towards euthanasia for twenty-eight countries, obtained from the World Values Survey, is analyzed. Specific requirements for changing directives may vary by state. (2018) point out, inappropriate in this context. 34 0 obj J. This is partly supported by the available data (Table 4). Non-linear curve estimation analyses for all variables possibly associated with EU-SELECT are presented in Table 4. Unable to load your collection due to an error, Unable to load your delegates due to an error. Bras (1992) 55, 263267. Advance directives: Oral and written instructions about ones future medical care, including the naming of a healthcare agent and acceptable life-sustaining procedures, in case one is unable to speak for oneself. A two-page Values Worksheet at the end of the six-page AD helps people think through their options. Moreover, attitudes towards PAS in dementia are not uniformly positive even in countries where it is legal; rather, they vary according to particular psychological, cultural, religious and economic factors (Rapp, 2016; Karumathil and Tripathi, 20202020). endobj How much medical care would you want if you had Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia? Its advisable to do so if your marital status changes or if you receive a medical diagnosis that may impact your end-of-life care preferences. Dementia and advance Directives: Some Empirical and Normative Concerns. doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2019.07.007, Cohen-Almagor, R. (2016). doi:10.5770/cgj.24.496, Nath, U., Regnard, C., Lee, M., Lloyd, K. A., and Wiblin, L. (2021). Dr. Gaster can be reached at barak[emailprotected]. Before doi:10.1136/jme.2007.024109, Hilliard, M. T. (2011). 276, 970983. [WjWPBp5Q+. The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. A similar study compared reactions to death in caregivers of patients with Alzheimers disease from different ethnic groups. National Library of Medicine doi:10.1177/0269216315582143, Tomlinson, E., and Stott, J. (2021). WebMenzel, P.T. Many people are more concerned about the loss of autonomy and independence in years of severe dementia than about pain and suffering in their last months. The Concept and Management of Acute Episodes of Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder: a Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Right to life or right to die in advanced dementia: physician-assisted dying. Each %PDF-1.5 Having a Conversation about the End of Life. Sci. J. Clin. 28, 299310. Care 20, 171178. Ethical Issues Raised by the Introduction of Artificial Companions to Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaborations. <>7]/P 6 0 R/Pg 44 0 R/S/Link>> Law, medicine & health care : a publication of the American Society of Law & Medicine. 1 0 obj Should Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide for Psychiatric Disorders Be Permitted? (2015). Also referred to as hyperalimentation, Transfusionsoften of blood or blood products. 8600 Rockville Pike The Dangers of Euthanasia and Dementia: How Kantian Thinking Might Be Used to Support Non-voluntary Euthanasia in Cases of Extreme Dementia. Economic burdens, both those faced by caregivers and by healthcare systems, have been advanced as a justification for PAS. 32 Nevertheless, some scholars have advocated that patients with advanced dementia should be permitted to request physician-assisted death by advance directive. The Association endorses other principles that protect what it calls respect for authority: It is important to plan for the incompetence of advanced dementia via legal documents, many of which vary according to the state in which the person lives. doi:10.1353/hpu.2012.0027. First, advocacy for PAS by healthcare professionals involved in dementia care could be seen as violating the principle of beneficience, which is one of the pillars of medical ethics. <>stream TABLE 1. 2013 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Inc. A., and Tripathi, R. (20202020). (2016). J. L. Med Ethics 41, 484500. Ending Treatment, VSED and other options. Attitudes toward Physician-Assisted Death from Individuals Who Learn They Have an Alzheimer Disease Biomarker. Its called an advance directive, and completing it is one of the best ways to ensure your care preferences are honored. endobj doi:10.1136/medethics-2017-104644, Mondragn, J. D., Salame, L., Kraus, A., and De Deyn, P. P. (2019). Christ Bioeth. Epub 2019 Dec 5. [15] Dworkin, R. (1994). A Systematic Review of Older Adults' Request for or Attitude toward Euthanasia or Assisted-Suicide. Curr. Good news: such a document exists. Persons with pre-dementia have no Kantian duty to die. 46, 101106. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> (2018). 80, 380386. However, a survey of individuals with elevated amyloid-beta, a putative biomarker for Alzheimers risk, found that only 20% of respondents would consider PAS in this context, suggesting that there is a mismatch between the theoretical values espoused in the literature and the actual wishes of patients in this context (Largent et al., 2019). doi:10.1179/2050854913Y.0000000009, Nicolini, M. E., Kim, S. Y. H., Churchill, M. E., and Gastmans, C. (2020). 38 0 obj Prof. Psychol. doi:10.1177/2168479018795857, Stolz, E., Burkert, N., Groschdl, F., Rsky, ., Stronegger, W. J., and Freidl, W. (2015). (2016). 2022-06-16T13:46:59-07:00 2022 Jan;31(1):40-53. doi: 10.1017/S0963180121000475. (2009). 9, 245271. Fourth, as the data for different variables was captured at different points in time, they may not reflect changes in social attitudes or economic circumstances that have occurred subsequently. But reality is never ideal. If the person with Alzheimers is no longer competent and has completed no directive, decisions generally fall to the spouse. Bioethics 35, 438445. Is Physician-Assisted Death Possible for People with Dementia? doi:10.3233/JAD-210078, Krag, E. (2014). What is needed, instead, is the identification a middle position that recognizes the futility of aggressive or heroic treatments in advanced dementia, while avoiding the pitfalls associated with euthanasia or PAS (Jones, 1997; Hendin et al., 2021). Do you define life by the intake of breath and nutrients? J Med Ethics. A Personalist Approach to Euthanasia in Persons with Severe Dementia. A careful examination of existing global survey data and its correlates, as well as of surveys of patients, caregivers and physicians and of ethical arguments for and against PAS in dementia, reveals a picture that is far from cut-and-dried. 1 39, 406429. Bioethics. Feel better that you'll get the medical care that you would want. Euthanasia is legal in only two of these countries (Netherlands and New Zealand), while assisted suicide is still illegal or under debate in all of them (Nath et al., 2021). <>1]/P 15 0 R/Pg 44 0 R/S/Link>> An additional argument based on caution comes from concerns about the failure of safeguards (Pereira, 2011). J. Med. doi:10.1159/000500183, Mondragn, J. D., Salame-Khouri, L., Kraus-Weisman, A. S., and De Deyn, P. P. (2020). (2021). There is an urgent need to develop research into the patient's perspective with regard to medical treatment and care-giving in dementia, including end-of-life care, as well as ethical and practical dilemmas created by euthanasia requests in advance directives. Indeed, appeals to emotion or sentimentality may lead to a simplistic attitude of approval towards PAS (Nichols, 2013). CMAJ 182, 895901. No significant correlation was observed for sex ratio, economic inequality, hospital bed availability, or the other three cultural dimensions. Before endobj BMC Psychiatry 17, 316. doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1474-0, Kim, B., Noh, G. O., and Kim, K. (2021). Roman Catholic Doctrine Guiding End-Of-Life Care: a Summary of the Recent Discourse. Palliat. J. Gen. Intern. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.009, Jakhar, J., Ambreen, S., and Prasad, S. (2020). Individual sample sizes from each country ranging from a minimum of 841 (New Zealand) to a maximum of 3,531 (South Africa). Psychiatry Rep. 19, 64. doi:10.1007/s11920-017-0818-2, Cherry, M. J. Dementia (London) 12, 377393. If this is the case, one would expect the plot of social capital against approval of euthanasia to take on a U-shape, with higher levels of social capital in societies with more uniform attitudes (either positive or negative) towards euthanasia, and lower scores in societies where attitudes are less uniform. Lifes dominion. @m[.bE jd>;_)i6>RV}VURVtN2UA@g% >Dm^(Q0HjJMatXc`~L6g)(%qOr3 Apart from masculinity/femininity, all these variables were significantly associated with EU-SELECT in bivariate linear analyses as well. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. Y{ }ZmGJTTZjj-Bc$s\m5rzX=Y$ P0)MZn l4h}P}d+xuffU"0pB+W![W?|SA C"c;- CVrpbxEwMv:R\8? The U.S. Advance Care Plan Registry produces a card for you when you register. Disclaimer. How to create effective advance directives to avoid living into severe dementia is the focus in this paper: what kinds of care should be withheld and when and the normative force of directives themselves are reviewed. (2019). Your doctor(s). Would you like email updates of new search results? J. Med. 83, 246257. J. Med. It is argued that, given the loss of autonomy that is entailed by cognitive decline, patients should have the right to choose PAS via advance directive prior to the onset of such decline. JAMA 316, 7990. On the basis of these findings, the author suggests that the practice of PAS in dementia is not one that can be widely or safely endorsed, on both cultural and ethical grounds. Leg. Consensus among experts regarding the value of PAS for dementia, and the feasibility of safeguards against abuse of this practice, is relatively easy to obtain (Dehkhoda et al., 2021). Health 16, 259278. Innov. Though such findings currently apply to only a small number of high-income countries, there is a strong possibility that such practices may be considered in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in those where improved healthcare has led to increases in life expectancy and in the number of elderly adults diagnosed with dementia (Mukhopadhyay and Banerjee, 2021). 92 percent of individuals surveyed by The Conversation Project said talking with their loved ones about end-of-life care is important, but just 32 percent have actually done so. Hertogh, C. M. (2009). It has already been noted that, paradoxically, approval of PAS in cases such as dementia is higher in high-income countries. Likewise, autonomy-based arguments may be rejected in non-Western cultures, particularly those in which filial piety and respect for the elderly are valued (Ting et al., 2017), or where autonomy is subordinate to community-based values (Nie et al., 2015). Related to these arguments, Sulmasy et al. Neurol. This could lead to the further stigmatization of patients with this disorder, and to an undue emphasis on euthanasia or PAS as the solution for those suffering from this illness. Click to explore. Third, as was mentioned in the previous section, reducing the worth of a patients life to their cognitive capacities alone poses certain problems; patients with dementia may continue to live in an experiential way even if severely cognitively impaired. 800 897 (1997) Soc. Acceptability and Feasibility of a Japanese Version of STrAtegies for RelaTives (START-J): a Manualized Coping Strategy Program for Family Caregivers of Relatives Living with Dementia. PLoS One 15, e0239423. 110, 466468. <> Handb Clin. doi:10.1007/s40592-020-00112-2, Moshe, S., and Gershfeld-Litvin, A. Linacre Q. Please enable it to take advantage of the complete set of features! WebHemlock Society of San Diego Good Life, Good Death. Homicidal Ideation in Family Carers of People with Dementia. FOIA Compassion and Love: the Antidote for Sentimentalism at the End of Life. Though this argument may be more ethically sound than the previous one, as it involves informed consent from patients themselves, it still entails certain difficulties. Alzheimer Dis. <> 2004 Oct;30(5):447-51; discussion 451-2. doi: 10.1136/jme.2002.002857. Second, as this field of debate is still relatively young, and societal attitudes towards this practice are changing rapidly in some parts of the world, a cross-sectional review of this sort may fail to identify significant shifts in attitudes towards PAS (Nicolini et al., 2020). Ethics 16, 303318. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.9891, Gastmans, C., and De Lepeleire, J. Clinical Considerations in Physician-Assisted Death for Probable Alzheimer's Disease: Decision-Making Capacity, Anosognosia, and Suffering. We focus on a recent controversial case in which a Dutch woman with Alzheimer's disease was euthanised based on her AED. Moreover, even if economic burdens influence a caregivers attitudes towards PAS, this need not be interpreted as a reason to broaden access to PAS; it could equally be well seen as a reason to provide economic and logistic assistance to affected families, and to identify and treat depression in caregivers. Dementia as a Source of Social Disadvantage and Exclusion. Third, as the number of countries for which data was available is relatively small, it is possible that some of the findings represent accidental positives due to multiple testing. 30 0 obj In this contribution we discuss some of the main arguments: the nature of suffering, the voluntariness of the request and the role of the physician. Last Name The Canadian government has proposed delaying the mental illness provision one year: until March 17, 2024. Valuing Biomarker Diagnostics for Dementia Care: Enhancing the Reflection of Patients, Their Care-Givers and Members of the Wider Public. Hospice vs. Palliative Care: What's the Difference? Oncol. Adv. Making advance directives is not only a gift to loved ones, its a gift to the person with Alzheimers. J. R. Soc. Epub 2016 Oct 21. Religious and spiritual factors: a composite measure of religiosity (affiliation, belief, practice and subjective importance) based on the most recent Pew Research Center survey (2018). For example, in a survey of Dutch physicians, 53% reported a significant emotional burden when faced with dementia-related PAS requests; 47% had difficulty in evaluating the competency of the patient with reference to informed consent; and 43% reported feeling pressurized by caregivers into approving the request (Schuurmans et al., 2021). These limitation are, to a certain degree, inherent to the complex nature of the question being addressed in this paper. Stat. WebEUTHANASIA: USING AN ADVANCED DIRECTIVE TO FACILITATE THE DESIRES OF THOSE WITH IMPENDING MEMORY LOSS V. 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