LECTURES AND TOPICS
Plenary lectures
Plenary lectures cover key aspects of palliative care and its development and future challenges. The lectures will include a plenary in memory of Virgilio Floriani, "The Floriani Lecture' and an EAPC award lecture presented by one distinguished contributor to palliative care development.
The plenary lectures will be published in full by the European Journal of Palliative Care and will be distributed to all conference delegates.
The main topics of the congress, plenary lectures and follow up
- A global perspective of palliative care
- Complementary medicine - what is the evidence for palliative care
- Cultural and religious aspects
- Education and learning - an integral part of palliative care
- Loss in the family
- Palliative care for children
- Pharmacology - new developments
- Quality of palliative care - to prove and to improve
- Resilience in palliative care - changing perspectives
- Sedation, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia - still on the agenda
- Symptom control
- The cognitively impaired, classification, diagnosis and treatment
Pediatric palliative care
The Congress program is highlighting issues of palliative care for children and will include Meet the experts sessions, a plenary and follow up sessions.
Plenary follow up - parallel sessions
Each plenary lecture will be followed by a session organised with two specialists who will give their statements on the topic. There will be time for discussions between the speakers and the audience. Other topics will be highlighted in parallel sessions.
Free communication - oral presentations
The scientific committee and external experts will review abstracts. The abstracts rated highest in terms of originality and relevance for palliative care, clarity and scientific standard will be selected for oral presentations.
Poster highlight sessions
Posters will be assessed by a poster review panel while displayed for exhibition and a selection of the most interesting posters will be presented orally at poster highlight sessions.
Teaching sessions
The purpose of the teaching sessions is to give participants the opportunity to learn about key issues as well as advanced aspects in palliative care. Basic knowledge as well as new developments and controversies in relation to clinical experience and scientific evidence will be included in the different topics. The teaching sessions will be designed to meet the different levels of needs of the participants depending on experience in palliative care.
The topics will include pain and symptom control, policy and organisation, culture and values, non-cancer patients, research and education.
Meet the expert sessions
Meet the expert sessions will give the participants the possibility to meet informally with experts of different fields of palliative care. The expert sessions are educational and interactive.
National meetings
The Congress will offer the opportunity for EAPC Collective Members to arrange national or regional meetings focused on issues of local development. Meetings will be arranged on the request by the Collective Member Organisations well in advance of the Congress. For further details please contact: at the EAPC Head Office.
