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TRANSLATING VALUES INTO ACTION:
Defining a Vision and Advocacy Agenda for a Person-Centered Long-Term Care System in Illinois
Discussion and Workshop Series
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group’s Center for Long-Term Care Reform invites you to participate in a three part series in which visionary national leaders will both challenge and encourage us to step back from our everyday lives to reconsider both broadly and specifically what we want to achieve with long-term care reform in Illinois and how we can get there.
The possibilities and potential for long-term care reform take shape in a social, political, economic, and moral environment that offers opportunities but also erects barriers. To do the best we can do, all things considered, means understanding that potential and those barriers, including what may be our own biases and patterned ways of thinking, and developing strategies to overcome the barriers to achieve the potential.
These three sessions will move from an overview of today’s political and ideological context, to moral reflections about vulnerability and loss, to considering the goals we wish to achieve at an individual and a system-wide level, to specific programmatic and policy responses. Bringing together the national, the state and the local and working with one another and our national leaders will give us an opportunity to think and plan in ways that the busyness of our everyday lives rarely allows.
We are very excited to bring together Illinois’s diverse communities dedicated to LTC reform to reflect, think, imagine, discuss, and plan together how to achieve a truly person-centered LTC system in Illinois.
Part I: Getting Situated: The Political, Social and Personal Contexts of Long-Term Care
April 14, 2008, Loyola Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Barry Hoffmaster, University of Western Ontario
Jennifer Parks, Loyola University, Chicago
Larry Polivka, University of South Florida
Part I will set the stage. Larry will paint the “big’ picture—how the current political, economic and ideological landscape both limits and gives us opportunities to make the changes we want. He will engage us in discussions about changes in public commitments, the effects of shifts in public attitudes to social welfare provision, and the responses that can mitigate these global and national threats.
Jennifer and Barry, both philosophers and ethicists, who have focused on issues of long-term care and often the vulnerability of people who need such care, will help us think about the moral obligations that emerge from the multiple realities of an autonomy that is deeply relational. To do person-centered care is to grapple with both the concrete reality of individuals and the relationships that sustain them. We’ll use cases that emerge in our practices to test these ideas and see how they can directly affect our practices. A panel of our national speakers and local experts will continue discussion and reflection on the cases and the issues that earlier discussions raised.
Part II: Defining Goals and Envisioning Systems: What Matters Most to Older Adults?
May 5, 2008, Loyola Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
A.E. (Ted) Benjamin, UCLA
Rosalie Kane, University of Minnesota
In Part II, we will examine the client and system-level goals we have for our long-term care system. Both Ted and Rosalie have thought and written extensively about such goals based on both empirical research and their own long experience in the field of aging and long-term care. We will benefit from their analysis and wisdom and then come together in work groups to develop and prioritize actionable goals for reform and rebalancing LTC while also addressing tradeoffs, and setting a course of action.
Part III: Achieving Success: Defining a Policy and Advocacy Agenda
June 2, 2008, Holiday Inn, Matteson, Illinois, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm
Robert Binstock, Case Western Reserve University
Robyn I. Stone, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aged
In Part III, Bob and Robyn, both esteemed policy pros and provocative thinkers, will work with us on framing a national and state policy agenda that builds on all that has come before so that we can move toward a reality-driven but aspirational vision and agenda for developing a richly imagined program of Person-Centered Care in Illinois.
Sponsors of this series include:
AARP
AgeOptions
Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society
Community Care Systems
Illinois Department on Aging
Illinois Hospice and Palliative Care
Institute for Health Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Macon County Health Department
Mather Life Ways
Progress Center for Independent Living
Older Adult Programs - Rush University Medical Center
Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago
Consider becoming a sponsor!
Registration:
Registration will open in early March!
Registration fees: $120 for the full series or $50 per part.
Additional Information:
CEUs will be offered for this series.
Questions?
Please direct questions and sponsorship inquiries to:
Priya Vin, pvin@hmprg.org, 312-372-4292 ext. 31
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