Personal information
Hilde Buiting finished her Master in Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University in 2004. In June 2005, she started as a junior researcher at the Department of Public Health of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. She participated in a large-scale study that investigates end-of-life decision-making in the Netherlands carried out by four Universities; the main aim was to evaluate the Dutch Euthanasia Act.During her PhD, she visited the Centre for Medical Psychology & Evidence-based Decision-making at the University of Sydney in Australia for 3 months. This study was part of a cross-national study between Dutch and Australian doctors who care for patients with advanced dementia. She conducted a qualitative study and interviewed medical practitioners about their experiences and attitudes towards artificial nutrition and hydration in patients with advanced dementia.
From January 2009 on, Hilde is working at the EMGO+Institute, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam participating in a research project that evaluates SCEN (In Dutch: ‘Steun en Consultatie bij Euthanasie in Nederland’). Currently, Hilde also participates in a project about indirect paternalism at the University of Amsterdam.
Research interests
- End-of-life care and end-of-life decision-making
- Ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care / end-of-life decision-making
- Euthanasia regulation / policy
- Cultural aspects in end-of-life decision-making
- End-of-life care preferences of migrants with a non-western background