European Countries' Different Legal Orientation About End-of-Life Issues in Patients Affected With Neurological/Psychiatric Diseases: Does Italian Law n.219/2017 Provide Adequate Options for This Fragile Category of Patients?

Front Psychiatry. 2021 Sep 24:12:675706. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.675706. eCollection 2021.

Nicola Di Fazio¹, Silvia Romano¹, Zoe Del Fante¹, Paola Santoro¹, Vittorio Fineschi^{1

2}, Paola Frati^{1

2}

¹ Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Neuromed Mediterranean Neurological Istitute, Pozzilli, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: advance treatment provisions; assisted suicide; dementia; end-of-life; euthanasia.