Hospice Staff Support Groups
May 15, 2025
We are proud to announce the launch of the Academy’s new Hospice Staff Support Groups. Click on the video, and see the information below it.
2 min
Hospice nurses, social workers, and spiritual care providers are front-line aid-in-dying clinicians, who provide much of the end-of-life care for patients considering or completing medical aid in dying, as well as crucial support for their families. No matter whether a hospice’s policy opts in, opts out, or falls somewhere in between, their clinical staff are often at the bedside, caring for dying patients and their loved ones throughout every stage of the dying process.
We know this work is important, and often deeply meaningful, but it can also be complex and demanding. That’s why we’ve created these free, confidential spaces where staff can share experiences, challenges, insights, or questions with others who truly understand.
If you are a hospice nurse, social worker, or spiritual care provider looking for support or practical guidance, join us!
We offer confidential monthly Zoom meetings and an online chat group. Follow this link to our form.
April 16, 2025
Author Interview: Disproportionate Use of Aid in Dying Among People with ALS.
16 minutes
Pharmacology Update: Hydrocodone vs Morphine for Aid-in-Dying Medications.
Preliminary Data Presented/Explained in a 12-minute Video Podcast.
March 26, 2025
12 minutes
Of interest to attending/prescribing clinicians and pharmacists since it may — or may not — affect prescribing choices.
Gratitude to Angelique Loscar, the Academy’s Director of Data Management and Analysis, for her work on this.
GeriPal Podcast
Comfort Feeding and VSED as Bridge to Aid in Dying
March, 20, 2025:
The Academy’s esteemed colleagues Hope Wechkin, MD, and Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C are featured on the highly informative and widely viewed GeriPal Podcast. Hope talks about Minimal Comfort Feeding. Thaddeus discusses the use of Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking as a bridge to aid in dying — see an article by Thad on that topic in the Academy’s Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine (with a counterpoint by Dr. Bob Uslander).
Film Review: The Room Next Door
(Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore)
March 7, 2025
12 minutes
February 10, 2025:
Why DDMAPh? The Journal of Palliative Medicine‘s January 2025 issue answered just that.
— The Pharmacology of Aid in Dying: From Database Analyses to Evidence-Based Best Practices.
As Dr. Jessica Kaan of End of Life Washington noted on the Academy Listserv: Published in a well-respected academic journal, this article marks a milestone in the field of end-of-life care. The groundbreaking work is the first to focus exclusively on the scientific aspects of aid in dying. Shifting from discussions about ethics or societal attitudes, this achievement underscores the growing importance of evidence-based clinical practices, advancing the scientific understanding of this complex and evolving field.
Introduction to Our New Website
5-minute video guide to the AADM.org website
(For a larger version, click on the
Full Screen icon in the lower right of the video)
The Academy is proud to announce
Issue 2 of the Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine
Issue 2, December 2024
Read Issue 2
THADDEUS MASON POPE, JD, PhD, HEC-C.
Health law professor and bioethicist
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm, Eastern.
Stackhouse Theater, Lexington, VA
and live-streamed on YouTube
How We Die: A Panel Investigating the Ethics of Medical Aid in Dying
With: Terri Laws, PhD; Mara Buchbinder, PhD; Moderated by Kerry Egan, MDiv.
Derek Humphry
April 29, 1930 — January 2, 2025
An Academy Remembrance, by Anita Hannig