Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives Involves Several Ethical Perspectives

In 2019, the Ethics Committee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine authored a white paper on “Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives in the ALF and PALTC Setting.” When the paper came before the House of Delegates, there was a long and animated discussion about the issue, with delegates deba ting the risks and benefits. Ultimately, it passed by a wide margin. At PALTC21, the Society’s Virtual Annual Conference, a program session dove into the issue in greater detail with “To Feed or Not to Feed: The Ethical Question.”
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