Canadian Senate passes Bill C-7, expanding assisted dying to include mental illness “The RESPECT calculator allows families and their loved ones to plan,” said Dr.
Amy Hsu, investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute and lead author of the study.In addition to palliative care professionals, researchers said it can be used by physicians and home care staff.The method used to develop the tool was published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).The calculator is based on data from more than 491,000 community-dwelling older adults who used home care in the six-year period between 2007 and 2013.