Closer to Home: Concerns and Comments from the Disability Community

This report is in response to "Closer to Home: The Report of the Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs", and was submitted to Paul Pallan, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health. It addresses recommendations from the report which the BCCPD felt to have shortcomings, and makes additional recommendations. In particular, this document takes issue with the Report's assumption that hospitals determine what health is; the themes of deinstitutionalization and medicalization throughout the report; the lack of long term care policy; the proposal to implement a Registry of Individuals with Disabilities; the Report's discussion of HIV/AIDS; and the lack of specific discussion of women with disabilities.