A Harder Death for People With Intellectual Disabilities – The New York Times

Read article - An opinion piece by Tim Lahey, associate professor of medicine, medical education, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in which he discusses how laws make it harder for patients with intellectual disabilities to avoid unwanted care. "In hospitals across the country, people with disabilities have been subject to all manner of substandard care, including inappropriately premature discontinuation of end-of-life care. This has improved over the past few decades, but a new systematic review shows people with intellectual disabilities still have difficulty accessing high quality end-of-life care, including palliative care specialists," says Lahey.