Topics & plenary sessions
Topics
- Definition, norms and standards – reaching consensus
- Reaching for excellence – new advances on symptom control
- Patient care and family care – reaching the goals
- New challenges – ethical issues in Palliative Care
- Reaching out to public health – from patient care to the public health approach
- Palliative Care and the elderly – meeting the challenge for 2050
- Palliative Care in adolescents – reaching the transition from paediatric to adult care
- Reaching out to the disadvantaged – learning disability, prisoners, asylum seekers, migrants, minority communities
- Dementia – identifying the need for Palliative Care
- Reaching partnership – Palliative Care in high, middle and low income countries
- Getting them interested – involving Stakeholders and key players in the development of Palliative Care in Europe
- Reaching out from Europe – the culture of Palliative Care in other settings
- Working hand in hand – research and education in international collaboration
- Palliative Care in physical and intellectual disability
Plenary sessions* waiting for you in Lisbon 2011
| From Pioneer Days to Implementation - Lessons to be Learnt |
by Mary Baines (United Kingdom) |
| Spiritual Care | by Piotr Krakowiak (Poland) |
| Palliative Care in a Low Resource Setting | by Oana Donea (Romania) |
| Care of the Dying is a Task for Society | by Isabel Galrica Neto (Portugal) |
| Pain Management: New Developments | by Mike Bennett (United Kingdom) |
| Palliative Care and HIV/AIDS | by Liz Gwyther (South Africa) |
| Primary Care and Palliative Care | by Scott Murray (United Kingdom) |
| Palliative Care in Europe - the View from the Outside in | by Liliana de Lima (Colombia) |
| Philosophy of Palliative Care | by Michael Kearney (California) |
* Titles shall be understood as preliminary working titles and might differ from the final version
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