News Item – Why we need better end-of-life policies in seniors’ residences

Grant Crosbie’s family wasn’t expecting a miracle. His wife and children knew he could never recover from Alzheimer’s devastating carnage. All they wanted was for him to have a peaceful death in the long-term care facility that had become his final home. That didn’t happen. Crosbie died, age 72, on Feb. 9, after a week in distress, gasping for breath and drowning in his own phlegm with his increasingly frantic family begging for medical assistance.

Full article at: Globe and Mail