VP-Net 2006 Spring Institute: "A Good Life Until the End: Palliative Care and People with Disabilities"

The Institute was held June 12 and 13, 2006 at York, the Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba. There were 66 participants (not including attendant care personnel) including representatives from the palliative care community, the organized disability community in Canada, government and academia.

The institute began with a ‘dialogue’ between researcher Harvey Chockinov and long time disability rights advocate and leader in the disability community, Jim Derksen. This was followed by keynote presentations by Adrienne Asche and Judith Heumann and a response to the keynote presentations by John Seely. This was followed by a discussion panel including, Jill Taylor-Brown, Paul Daeninck and George Webster.

The second day of the event began with a dramatic presentation of a play by VP-Net post-doctoral fellow Heidi Janz. This was followed by a keynote presentation by Carol Gill. The rest of the second day was split into three workshops, the first addressing the question what attitudes currently shape end of life care? The second addressed the question what would good palliative care for people with disabilities would look like? The third and final workshop looked to the future and asked have the questions has this discussion brought you to a different place from where you where when you came, and if so where? And what tangible actions can we take from here to move this conversation forward? 

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