She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death

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via IFTTT Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Dementia, Doctors, Law and Legislation, Living Wills and Health Care Proxies, Elder Care, Alzheimer's Disease, Nursing Homes, audio-neutral-informative, audio-negative-sad In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.

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