How One Hospice Program Responded to Physician-Assisted Dying
How One Hospice Program Responded to Physician-Assisted Dying is organized by The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term care Medicine - AMDA
Activity Created: 3/2022
Credits Available Until 3/2025
Description:
In this presentation, attendees will receive an overview of the clinical criteria for medical aid-in-dying, a summary of how state laws vary, and an overview of the data collected from authorized states. An experienced colleague will share how one hospice organization, with programs across 19 states, has navigated administrative challenges, patient expectations and provider concerns. Sample policies from hospices with long- and short-term experience implementing medical aid in dying will demonstrate the practical and ethical questions a hospice program must address in developing its policy as well as the challenges and opportunities likely to be encountered.
Learning Objectives:
• Define medical aid-in-dying clinical criteria and legal requirements.
• Describe the policies that a hospice program should consider in response to medical aid-in-dying legislation.
• Enumerate the provider and client concerns with regard to medical aid-in-dying laws.
• Identify the important questions that hospice policies must answer.
