A geriatrician writes, "In my experience, the people with the most detail in their advanced care plans about the medical treatments they don’t want are elderly retired nurses." Why?
Because they know what's coming, what's possible and what's not.
And letter writers agree that something needs to change so that people facing the realistic prospect of dementia can access the option of voluntary assisted dying.
So federal Labor has changed its policy on the National School Chaplaincy Program and reverted to what it was under Gillard - viz, to allow non-religious student welfare officers to be funded as well as religious people. But the states are interpreting this change in different ways, with some
more 'friendly' to institutionalised religion. Where does your state stand?
