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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 - - 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
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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
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End of Life Option Act & Hospitals
Opt In: Kaiser Permanente, UC Health, Sutter Health Opt Out: Loma Linda University Health, Adventist Health, all 48 Catholic hospitals, Tenet Hospitals, VA
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End of Life Option Act Participation
258 started the process 191 (74%) received prescription 111 (58%) ingested the drug
21 (11%) died of underlying disease
59 (31%)
- utcome
unknown 173 unique physicians prescribed the drug 6 out of every 10,000 deaths in California
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Participant Characteristics
87.4%
60 years or older
96.4%
Had Health Insurance
83.8%
Hospice or Palliative Care
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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