…an. 27, 2014, http://www.healthline.com/health-news/senior-elder-abuse-more-common-than-you-think-012714 [xxv] National Elder Abuse Incidence Study 1998: https://www.acl.gov/sites/default/files/programs/2016-09/ABuseReport_Full.pdf [xxvi] Under the Radar: New York State Elder Abuse Prevalence Study 2009: http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/main/reports/Under%20the%20Radar%2005%2012%2011%20final%20report.pdf [xxvii] Autopsy Cutbacks Reveal “Gray Homicides”…
…than 75 million people. So they’re your typical bunch of affluent and well-connected self-proclaimed progressives who want to somehow put a bunch of different issues into that one box labeled “progressive.” What called my attention to the site was something that appeared in my news feed titled “5 Things You Need to Know: Doctor Assisted Suicide.” The article – by Allan MacDonell – should have carried the more accurate title of “5 Things I Think I…
…bituaries/john-lheureux-dead.html https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/john-lheureux-05-06-19 https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2019/05/01/and-thus-suicide-began-prolific-author-john-heureux-wrote-his-final-essay-death-and-dignity/m4yqp88Bfb7RqSc1bFX0cM/story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/obituaries/john-lheureux-dead.html https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/john-lheureux-05-06-19 Ibid. Ibid. I…
…, allowing hospitals and doctors to end intensive procedures at various end-of-life stages.” He then mentions assisted suicide in the same context. It is not a coincidence that Compassion & Choices’ Barbara Coombs Lee was previously employed as an HMO executive. In Oregon, Barbara Wagner and Randy Stroup received letters from Oregon Medicaid denying coverage for prescribed chemotherapy. The letters noted, however, that the state would cover the…
…ially disturbed about the paucity of information on how guardians make life-or-death healthcare decisions. Do the decisions made by guardians who did not know the person prior to guardianship tend to differ from those made by guardians who are family or friends? What circumstances lead to medical neglect or abuse? If the guardian is both an heir and healthcare decision maker, is there screening for potential conflicts of interest? Are there many g…
