{"id":1039,"date":"2024-04-15T09:39:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1039"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:19:03","slug":"2-7-6","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/2-7-6\/","title":{"raw":"2.7.7 Medical Assistance in Dying","rendered":"2.7.7 Medical Assistance in Dying"},"content":{"raw":"<div style=\"border-style: solid;padding: 10px\">\r\n\r\n<strong>Content Warning: <\/strong><span>The following lesson includes a discussion of medical assistance in dying. This content is disturbing, so we encourage you to prepare yourself emotionally before proceeding. If you believe that the reading will be traumatizing for you, then you may choose to forgo it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nMedical assistance in dying (MAID) has been legal in Canada since 2016 following the royal assent of Bill C-14.\r\n\r\nNurse practitioners, physicians, pharmacists, and \u201cpersons aiding practitioners\u201d (including nurses) are permitted to help those who have explicitly requested MAID.\r\n\r\nIn 2022, there were 13,241 MAID provisions reported in Canada, accounting for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada, 7.6% of these provisions occurred in Residential Care Facilities (which includes LTC)\r\n\r\nIn accordance with federal legislation, MAID includes circumstances where a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner, at an individual\u2019s request:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Administers a substance that causes an individual\u2019s death (previously referred to as euthanasia) or<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Prescribes a substance for an individual to self-administer to cause their own death (previously referred to as physician assisted suicide)[footnote]Government of Ontario, 2023[\/footnote][footnote]Government of Canada, 2023a[\/footnote][footnote]Health Canada, 2023[\/footnote]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nTo be eligible for MAID, one must meet\u00a0all\u00a0the following criteria:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Be eligible for health services funded by a province or territory, or the federal government<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Be at least 18 years old and mentally competent<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Have a\u00a0grievous and irremediable medical condition<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Make a voluntary request for medical assistance in dying<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Give\u00a0informed consent\u00a0to receive medical assistance in dying<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<div style=\"border-style: solid;padding: 10px\">\n<p><strong>Content Warning: <\/strong><span>The following lesson includes a discussion of medical assistance in dying. This content is disturbing, so we encourage you to prepare yourself emotionally before proceeding. If you believe that the reading will be traumatizing for you, then you may choose to forgo it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been legal in Canada since 2016 following the royal assent of Bill C-14.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse practitioners, physicians, pharmacists, and \u201cpersons aiding practitioners\u201d (including nurses) are permitted to help those who have explicitly requested MAID.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, there were 13,241 MAID provisions reported in Canada, accounting for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada, 7.6% of these provisions occurred in Residential Care Facilities (which includes LTC)<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with federal legislation, MAID includes circumstances where a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner, at an individual\u2019s request:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Administers a substance that causes an individual\u2019s death (previously referred to as euthanasia) or<\/li>\n<li>Prescribes a substance for an individual to self-administer to cause their own death (previously referred to as physician assisted suicide)<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Government of Ontario, 2023\" id=\"return-footnote-1039-1\" href=\"#footnote-1039-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Government of Canada, 2023a\" id=\"return-footnote-1039-2\" href=\"#footnote-1039-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Health Canada, 2023\" id=\"return-footnote-1039-3\" href=\"#footnote-1039-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be eligible for MAID, one must meet\u00a0all\u00a0the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be eligible for health services funded by a province or territory, or the federal government<\/li>\n<li>Be at least 18 years old and mentally competent<\/li>\n<li>Have a\u00a0grievous and irremediable medical condition<\/li>\n<li>Make a voluntary request for medical assistance in dying<\/li>\n<li>Give\u00a0informed consent\u00a0to receive medical assistance in dying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-1039-1\">Government of Ontario, 2023 <a href=\"#return-footnote-1039-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-1039-2\">Government of Canada, 2023a <a href=\"#return-footnote-1039-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-1039-3\">Health Canada, 2023 <a href=\"#return-footnote-1039-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":61,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1039","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1039\/revisions\/1053"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1039\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}