Program promotes hospice with living documents
Starting in November, Connecticut residents may sign a document similar to a living will, which requests hospice care should they become terminally ill. This Physician-Assisted Living program, created by the John D. Thompson Hospice Institute, affiliated with Connecticut Hospice Inc. in Branford, is designed to raise awareness that the terminally ill have options other than euthanasia or dying in an acute hospital setting and to introduce the hospice concept into advance care planning.
Informational outreach and public service announcements are planned this fall to counter the publicity given to physician-assisted suicide which remains illegal in Connecticut. This campaign, the first of its kind nationally, also has the support of the state’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. However, the Hospice Council of Connecticut, representing the state’s 29 other hospices, did not participate in its initial development.
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