December 14, 2015 – Today, the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) calls on health professions and governments to urgently give much more attention to how vulnerable patients will be identified and cared for in the system.
CACL shares with all Canadians the value of a health care system that promotes patient autonomy and dignity in end-of-life care. However, the recommendations proposed in the Final Report of the Provincial-Territorial Advisory Group, released December 14th, fail to recognize the growing vulnerability in Canadian society.
CACL is calling for governments to abide by the Supreme Court’s imperative that any safeguard system must balance the competing values of protecting the autonomy and dignity of a person’s right to choose on the one hand, and the need to protect vulnerable persons on the other