End of Life Option Act: One Year Later Helen Jung Institute for - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

End of Life Option Act: One Year Later Helen Jung

Institute for Health Policy & Leadership

Overview • Allows terminally ill, mentally competent, adult residents of CA to self-administer “aid-in-dying medication” • Provides legal immunity for participating physicians and pharmacists • Signed into law October 5, 2015 • Went into effect June 9, 2016 • Will expire January 1, 2026

End of Life Option Act & Hospitals Opt Out: Opt In: Loma Linda University Kaiser Permanente, UC Health, Adventist Health, Health, Sutter Health all 48 Catholic hospitals, Tenet Hospitals, VA

End of Life Option Act Participation 173 unique 258 started physicians the process prescribed the drug 6 out of every 191 (74%) 10,000 deaths received in California prescription 21 (11%) 111 (58%) 59 (31%) died of ingested the outcome underlying drug unknown disease

Participant Characteristics 60 years or older Had Health Insurance Hospice or Palliative Care 87.4% 96.4% 83.8% Individuals tend to be white (89.5%), educated (72.1% with at least some college education), female (54.1%), cancer patients (58.6%)

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