Julia Brassolotto – The Conversation

There is debate about whether a health-care worker can ethically participate in both palliative care and the MAID program. (Shutterstock)

May 17, 2023

MAID’s evolving ethical tensions: Does it make dying with dignity easier than living with dignity?

Alessandro Manduca-Barone, University of Lethbridge; Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge, and Monique Sedgwick, University of Lethbridge

Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.

In the absence of guidelines or training regarding sexual expression in long-term care homes, most staff are ‘just winging it’ on potentially sensitive issues. (Shutterstock)

May 9, 2021

Seniors have a right to express their sexuality in long‑term care homes, but staff need guidance

Alessandro Manduca-Barone, University of Lethbridge; Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge, and Lisa Howard, University of Lethbridge

In the absence of guidelines or training regarding sexual expression in long-term care homes, most staff are ‘just winging it’ on potentially sensitive issues.

Improving death-friendliness offers further opportunity to improve social inclusion. A death-friendly approach could lay the groundwork for people to stop fearing getting old or alienating those who have. (Shutterstock)

March 29, 2021

Death‑friendly communities ease fear of aging and dying

Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge; Albert Banerjee, St. Thomas University (Canada), and Sally Chivers, Trent University

Death-friendly communities that welcome mortality might help us live better lives and provide better care for people at the end of their lives.

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