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KMID : 1024720220120010001
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Geriatric Rehabilitation
2022 Volume.12 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.5
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Current Status and Prospect of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Well-Dying
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Yun Young-Ho
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Abstract
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In January 2016, at the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Act on decision on lifesustaining treatment for patients in hospice and palliative care or at the end of life was enacted. Interest in well-dying began to increase at a time when the elderly population has recently rapidly increased and we are about to enter a super-aging society in 2024. Tragic deaths such solitary death caring murders and accompanying suicides that are reported through the news make us sad. Currently the policy and government budget for hospice is insufficient compared to the public demand. Well-dying in a broad sense is the answer of our reality. The public interest and demand for well-dying is getting stronger day by day. If there is no national response to well-dying in a broader sense even after 10 years have passed we will face the reality of legislating euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.
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KEYWORD
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Well-dying, Life-sustaining treatment, Hospice, Physician-assisted suicide, Euthanasia
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