A Vision of good palliative care for all: What a disability perspective contributes to palliative care
At the 2006 VP-Net Institute Pat Danforth summarized her vision of good palliative care for everyone:
In good palliative care, the environment must be totally accessible; that includes wheelchair access, access for persons with hearing impairments and visual impairments, people who are Deaf… We need a space for all persons with all types of disabilities. It’s called universal design. We need a core of volunteers who are knowledgeable about disability and understand the dying process. We need support workers who have been trained to understand disability supports. We need a system that allows the individual to have who they want with them 24/7. Palliative care also needs to be available in the home and in a setting that is not necessarily a hospital type setting. And one of the more important things, nobody wears a uniform.
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