Public Health Research in Palliative Care: Shifting the Paradigm

When:

25-10-2018 to 26-10-2018

Where:

Brussels, Belgium

International Seminar of EAPC RN and the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care

Date: 25 & 26 October 2018
Location: Palace of the Royal Academies, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Abstract submission is now open: click here - deadline 15 August 2018

Themes

• Improving support in society for palliative care
• Death, dying and loss
• Family caregiving for people with serious
illness
• Volunteers in end-of-life and palliative care
• Non-professional agents and organizations in
end-of-life and palliative care
• Collaboration and coalitions between health
care services and civil society or the general
public
• Community interventions to improve end-oflife
or bereavement care
• Public health policy to improve end-of-life or
bereavement care in society

Target Groups

• Academics and researchers
• Patient organizations
• Informal carer organizations
• Volunteer organizations
• Policy makers
• Palliative care professionals
• Palliative care organizations

Program

Day 1: Thursday 25 October
9u00	Coffee
9u25	Welcome by Chair of the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care, prof. Luc Deliens, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium and Chair EAPC RN prof. Stein Kaasa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (TBC)
9u35	Opening (TBD)
9u45	Plenary lecture: Epidemiology & palliative care prof. Agnes van der Heide, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
10u15	Plenary lecture: What’s new about new public health research? Why do we need it in palliative care research? Libby Sallnow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10u45	Plenary lecture based on selected abstract
11u10	Abstract session 1: Theme 1, 5 presentations
12u50	Lunch
14u00	Abstract session 2: Theme 2, 5 presentations
15u40	Coffee
16u00	Plenary lecture: Why public health should look at family carers of dying persons prof. Gunn Grande, Cancer, Supportive and Palliative Care Research Group, University of Manchester, UK
16u30	Panel discussion day 1: panel members (TBD)
17u40	Closing of day 1: (TBD)
18u30- 20u30	Conference dinner (walking dinner)

Day 2: Friday 26 October
9u00	Coffee
9u30	Plenary lecture 4: Natural history of palliative care: From the British hospices to the Compassionate communities prof. Xavier Gomez Batiste Alentorn, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain
10u00	Plenary lecture based on best abstract selection
10u20	Plenary lecture: What can big data do for public health palliative care research? prof. Joachim Cohen, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
11u10	Abstract session 3: Theme 3, 5 presentations
12u30	Paneldiscussion day 2: panel members (TBD)
13u30	Closing of congress followed by lunch, prof. Luc Deliens, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium