Quebec to allow Alzheimers patients to apply for MAID starting Oct. 30 [Video]

Quebec residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease will soon be able to apply for medical assistance in dying (MAID) starting Oct. 30, allowing them to make the choice before losing their decision-making capacity.

However, some doctors say the healthcare system is unprepared and can’t handle the increase in requests.

“I don’t think most of the doctors or nurse practitioners or health care professionals will be ready,” said palliative medicine Dr Mathieu Moreau in a recent interview.

Quebec is moving forward with the change more than a year after changing provincial law knowing that the federal government has yet to alter the criminal code.

Dr Moreau said there has not been enough information on the rollout. “The system right now, it’s not designed to have that huge number of patients at once or in a given months or year.”

He added that it will take several sessions for patients to decide and …