"DEEPLY REGRETS" TIES W/ COMPASSION & CHOICES
"VALUES ARE INCONSISTENT"-
- The Alzheimer's Association just announced in press release that it is ending its relationship with Compassion & Choices, the advocacy group behind physician assisted suicide legislation across the country and in Connecticut.
- The Alzheimer Association asserts that "research supports a palliative care approach as the highest quality of end-of-life care for individuals with advanced dementia."
- This development should end discussion on this session's proposed bill for physicians assisted suicide, and it should turn attention to efforts to improve end-of-life care, to improve care for the disabled, and to improve care for the chronically ill in Connecticut.