{"id":644,"date":"2017-03-30T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T22:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threelinks.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:38:40","slug":"medical-assistance-in-dying-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/medical-assistance-in-dying-maid\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, the Government of Canada amended the Criminal Code to allow for Medical Assistance in Dying for Canadians who are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at least 18 years of age and eligible for publically funded health services in Canada<\/li>\n<li>competent to consent to the termination of life without coercion or undue influence, including at the time of administration<\/li>\n<li>suffering from a grievious and irremediable medical condition that causes suffering that is intolerable to the individual<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vancouver Coastal Health has released guidelines to provide some clarity and assist care providers with the new law.\u00a0 In addition, Three Links will be developing our own policy that will provide direction to staff as to what to do when a resident requests medical assistance in dying.\u00a0 Over the coming weeks, our Director of Care, Faria Ali, will be engaging staff and stakeholders to help develop a policy that supports the Three Links mission and values and reflects your feedback.\u00a0 Vancouver Coastal Health has developed a brochure to assist the general public in understanding MAiD.\u00a0 Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/threelinks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Medical-Assistance-In-Dying-2016.pdf\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0for a copy of the brochure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, the Government of Canada amended the Criminal Code to allow for Medical Assistance in Dying for Canadians who are: at least 18 years of age and eligible for publically funded health services in Canada competent to consent to the termination of life without coercion or undue influence, including at the time of administration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threelinks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}