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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
[Autonomy and medical aid in dying: the place of psychiatry]
1Unité d'urgence psychiatrique, CHU Caen Normandie, avenue de la Côte-de-Nacre, 14033 Caen cedex, France; Recherches en éthique et en épistémologie, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations, université Paris-Saclay, 16 avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, 94800 Villejuif, France.
Abstract:
Autonomy has become the highest value in our society, and while it is having an impact on the debate on a future law on medical assistance in dying, it is also opening the door to a reflection on vulnerability. Although seemingly unaffected, at least initially, psychiatry could join the field of this reflection and bring out the avenues of renewal.
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