MAID rules in Canada: Alzheimer’s patients impacted [Video]

Mary Wilson was rapidly deteriorating with Alzheimer’s when she received a medically assisted death in 2017.

The Alberta woman was still cognitively aware and could carry complex conversations, but those chats might take an hour and a half instead of the usual 15 minutes, says her son, Ken Campbell.

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She had also begun retreating from the world as the disease progressed: she put coffee cups in bathroom cabinets and spoons under pillows; she needed help getting dressed and had a loss of bladder control.

Wilson, an intellectual with three post-secondary degrees, stopped reading and started watching Disney musicals on repeat.

“Talking to my mom was like watching a beginner driver parallel park,” Campbell says of her final days.

Wilson hosted an intimate house party with family and friends before receiving MAID.

At the party she …