Dr. Konia Trouton:

When we do a MAID assessment, we are required to inform a person to inform a person and make sure he or she understands the option of palliative care. In my experience, many of the people are in a process of investigating and understanding what assisted death and palliative care means. Many people do take that detour and work complimentarily with the palliative care specialists to help them and ease their suffering as they go through the next trajectory of their illness. That is why we do have 20% of people dying in a palliative care unit with assistance because they are availing themselves of both. It is a requirement to both assess someone's access to palliative care and access to other sorts of services, so it is incumbent on us to make sure we check that out as part of our thorough assessment.