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Fully-automated, accessible apartment building a first for Calgary
After two years of construction, Calgary's first fully automated assisted living apartment building is ready for residents to move in. Full article here
Man Asked for Assisted Living, But Offered MAiD Instead
This is a scenario feared by CWDO: someone being offered the "choice" to die because it's easier than providing the level of service required to help someone live with dignity in the community.
Because Roger Foley suffers from a terminal and incurable disorder, he qualifies for medically assisted death. But Foley does not want to die -- he simply wants to live at home. That's why he launched a landmark lawsuit about having the right to assisted living.
According to Foley, a government-selected home care provider had previously left him in ill health with injuries and food poisoning. Unwilling to continue living at home with the help of that home care provider, and eager to leave the London hospital where he’s been living for two years, Foley is suing the hospital, several health agencies and the attorneys general of Ontario and Canada in the hopes of being given the opportunity to set up a health care team to help him live at home again.
Foley’s statement of claim alleges that his Charter rights “to life, liberty and security of the person” were violated when he was offered the options of discharge back to inadequate service and MAiD without being given the chance to create a “safe and available self-directed assisted care option that would substantially alleviate his irremediable and intolerable suffering.”
CWDO will be watching this case as it unfolds.
Read more about Foley's fight for assisted living. The article includes links to news videos and a lengthy video by Foley himself..
Read Foley's Statement of Claim (PDF File).
Read CWDO's 2015 Submission to the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying.
