{"id":1827463,"date":"2023-01-29T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827463"},"modified":"2023-01-29T07:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:08:32","slug":"alzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer&#8217;s Association Hides New Partnership With Lobbying Group for Assisted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falzheimers-association-hides-new-partnership-with-lobbying-group-for-assisted-suicide-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/assisted-suicide.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Selling assisted suicide &#8220;historically marginalized communities&#8221; It is difficult to do business because it can kill potential clients and smacks eugenics. Compassion &#038; Choices has found a solution to this problem. It is the nation&#8217;s largest assisted suicide lobbying group. It has enlisted the help\u2014and data\u2014of a trusted brand: the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd combination. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association invests considerable resources in order to overcome the &#8220;disease&#8221; it calls. &#8220;the stigma&#8221; Kim Callinan, Compassion &#038; Choices CEO, described dementia as &#8220;an incurable disease that causes Alzheimer&#8217;s or dementia.&#8221; &#8220;a fate worse than death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices was the name of the organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/compassionandchoices.org\/resource\/history-end-life-choice-movement#:~:text=Compassion%2520%2526%2520Choices%2520is%2520the%2520leading,at%2520the%2520end%2520of%2520life.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hemlock Society<\/a> until the group&#8217;s support for fellow member Jack Kevorkian\u2014and his increasing number of so-called mercy killings\u2014tainted the brand. The Hemlock Society celebrated Kevorkian&#8217;s actions. But the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association issued a statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/11642940\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> Opposition, noting &#8220;we must \u2026 affirm the right to dignity and life for every Alzheimer patient and cannot condone suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Soros, whose mother was a member the Hemlock Society, invested millions in the assisted suicide movement through his Open Society Foundations to help the Hemlock Society rebrand as Compassion &#038; Choices.<\/p>\n<p>Once at odds, Compassion &#038; Choices announced last December that they would work together to improve the lives of people with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/news\/alzheimer-s-association-and-compassion-choices-form-partnership-to-improve-end-of-life-care-for-those-living-with-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shared effort<\/a> To improve &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; People with dementia in the &#8220;Black, Latino, Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and LGBTQ communities,&#8221; According to a Compassion &#038; Choices press release. Together, they will host webinars in the national and local areas, exchange data, and organize conferences. &#8220;and more,&#8221; According to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices seems to be more enthusiastic about the partnership that its counterpart. While Compassion &#038; Choices issued two press release, the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association did not. Each organization did not respond to multiple interviews requests. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association agreed, days before publication, to make a telephone call to a director of diversity equity and inclusion engagement to submit comments. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Learn more about the key issues raised in this report. The association hadn&#8217;t done so by Friday at 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Now critics are raising concerns about the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association&#8217;s new partnership\u2014which, contrary to its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/about\/transparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policy<\/a> Share &#8220;partnership information with all constituents,&#8221; It is not disclosed on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices doesn&#8217;t have to be an end in itself. &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; Despite its website describing the practice as &#8220;Assisted suicide lobbying&#8221;, it is not an organization.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/about-us\/medical-aid-dying-not-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical assistance for the dying<\/a>.&#8221; It takes a lot of effort to define what &#8220;end-of-life care&#8221; encompasses and, between 2017 and 2020 Compassion &#038; Choices spent more than $2 million lobbying for assisted suicide. Despite its admission that certain people are able to suicidal, <a href=\"https:\/\/compassionandchoices.org\/news\/colorado-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It shouldn&#8217;t count<\/a> For assisted suicide in the United States, there are already <a href=\"https:\/\/jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40337-022-00548-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very bad look for the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, who have done so much for patients, to form a partnership with the leading proponent organization for assisted suicide laws, putting people with dementia and other intellectual disabilities at grave risk of deadly harm,&#8221; said Matt Valli\u00e8re, the executive director of the Patients&#8217; Rights Action Fund, an advocacy group against legalizing assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p><b>From DEI to Please Die<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices is interested in helping people who are suffering. &#8220;historically underserved communities&#8221;Assisted suicide is not a popular option for non-whites. There have been more than 2,100 assisted suicides. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/oha\/PH\/PROVIDERPARTNERRESOURCES\/EVALUATIONRESEARCH\/DEATHWITHDIGNITYACT\/Documents\/year24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon<\/a>In the state of, there has been only one African American. <a href=\"https:\/\/doh.wa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/422-109-DeathWithDignityAct2021.pdf?uid=63c0ad575417c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington<\/a>Whites account for 92 percent of assisted-suicide deaths.<\/p>\n<p>So Compassion &#038; Choices made a huge investment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidestar.org\/profile\/84-1328829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Effort<\/a>\u00a0To disseminate &#8220;end-of-life planning educational resources&#8221; to &#8220;underserved communities,&#8221; Increased distribution of 22,380 pamphlets\/guides in 2020, up from 0 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the material was written from an assisted suicide lobby&#8217;s point of view. An advanced directive, which is a written document signed by a patient and giving instructions for future medical decisions in the event that the patient does not have the capacity, is an example of a document. This is unlike other directives. <a href=\"https:\/\/dementia-directive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Directives<\/a> in use, Compassion &#038; Choices&#8217;s advanced directive for dementia patients has no discussion of what dementia is, the life expectancy\u2014between 5 to 20 years\u2014and the stages of dementia. Instead, dementia has been described as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/compassionandchoices.org\/resource\/eoldgt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Avoid unnecessary suffering<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This effort is made possible by the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.<b> <\/b>Its brand, unlike Compassion &#038; Choices is a trusted and established entity. Compassion &#038; Choices will instead be able to use the reputation of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association through this partnership. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/about\/our-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion\/our-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contacts<\/a>\u00a0With minority groups to disseminate materials that gloss over assisted suicide under the pretext of &#8220;end-of-life care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compassion &#038; Choices&#8217;s Press Release included a statement of Carl V. Hill (Chair Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association). &#8220;We are excited to collaborate with Compassion &#038; Choices to expand our reach, connecting families affected by Alzheimer&#8217;s and other dementia to disease information, education programs, and access to care and support services,&#8221; Hill spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Even with this partnership, however, it is unlikely that black Americans living in underserved areas will choose assisted suicide. Joel Zivot, an Atlanta-based intensive care physician and professor at Emory University, says that even those who feel they are not being served well by the system, they will turn away from it. &#8220;I can tell you that in the U.S., or where I&#8217;m practicing \u2026 my patients who feel disenfranchised from health care \u2026 are not demanding to die. They&#8217;re demanding to live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zivot said that some patients refuse Do Not Resuscitate forms and prefer to continue life-saving treatments. &#8220;The people who feel like the health care system had failed them their entire life,&#8221; He said, &#8220;These are the same people who tell, &#8220;Now you want me to roll over and die? No, thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is even more so for those with dementia. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nia.nih.gov\/news\/data-shows-racial-disparities-alzheimers-disease-diagnosis-between-black-and-white-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black<\/a> Alzheimer&#8217;s research participants are twice as likely than white participants to develop dementia, but they are 35% less<i> <\/i>Most likely to be diagnosed with it.<\/p>\n<p>Fayron, an assistant professor of nursing at Emory University also created a <a href=\"https:\/\/alterdementia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Programs specialized<\/a> African-American churches should support families living with dementia and Alzheimer&#8217;s. While she declined to speak about the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association\u2019s partnership\u2014she is a board member of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association in Georgia\u2014she agreed to talk about what supports black patients need.<\/p>\n<p>Epps stated that the problem is that &#8220;minority racial ethnic groups&#8221; These are the most common. &#8220;in underserved areas,&#8221; Which &#8220;means that they do not have the resources&#8221; They are also available to other people. They do not have access to adult day centers, sufficient medical care, or the education necessary for detection of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>These families cannot access the help they need without a diagnosis. Family members from under-resourced and under-served communities need to pick up the pieces. &#8220;Historically, you know, people have said that black families keep their loved ones at home,&#8221; Epps said. &#8220;I can say I&#8217;ve seen that in my work, that a lot of black families do the best that they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the best just isn&#8217;t enough. These families also need support. Epps was most open to answering my questions about her work with patients nearing the end of their lives. &#8220;I don&#8217;t deal with end-of-life care patients,&#8221; Epps said. Alzheimer&#8217;s patients who are diagnosed early often live for many years.<\/p>\n<p>These same patients, however, are coded automatically in jurisdictions that have extensive assisted suicide and euthanasia policies. &#8220;end-of-life.&#8221; For example, anyone with an Alzheimer&#8217;s diagnosis in Canada is eligible for receiving assistance. &#8220;Medical Assistance in Dying&#8221; Without delay and immediately after approval, Epps looked shocked. &#8220;That&#8217;s interesting. Okay. All right,&#8221; She said.<\/p>\n<p><i>Alexander Raikin, a Washington, D.C., writer.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling assisted suicide &#8220;historically marginalized communities&#8221; It is difficult to do business because it can kill potential clients and smacks eugenics. Compassion &#038; Choices has found a solution to this problem. It is the nation&#8217;s largest assisted suicide lobbying group. It has enlisted the help\u2014and data\u2014of a trusted brand: the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association. 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