Unpacking Vulnerability: A Legal Perspective on Tough Questions
| Friday, May 2, 2025 |
| 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Grand Ballroom AB |
Speaker(s)
Speaker: Amanda Cramm
Session Details
Objectives:
i. Explain the key factors to assess voluntariness and the role of allied health care providers in this process.
ii. Describe risk mitigation strategies for cases involving external pressures including structural vulnerabilities such as poverty, lack of housing and their potential influence on requests for medical assistance in dying.
Speaker
Amanda Cramm
Alberta Health Services
Speaker
Biography
Amanda has been a practicing health lawyer for over 10 years specializing in MAID, consent and capacity, forensic and civil mental health, and privacy. She draws on her education and experience in the field of social work to inform her legal practice and research.
I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off label” use of medications)
I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off label” use of medications)
