Tracks
Innovations, Delivery Models, and Technological Interventions
- Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.
- Highlighting the role of technology and AI in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.
- Addressing the availability, access, and use of essential palliative care drugs, including oral liquid morphine, and other drugs for symptom management.
- Strategies for Integrating Palliative Care into the health system to ensure accessibility of services e.g. Primary Health Care (PHC), community-based approaches, developing hospital and home care teams.
- Palliative care as a cornerstone in mainstream disease management including timely integration into the management of specific conditions and rehabilitation, e.g. neurologic conditions, sickle cell disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc;
- Utilising diagnostics and imaging technologies in palliative care and allied health services.
- Strengthening and expanding the inter-disciplinary team for palliative care e.g. physiotherapy, pharmacy, traditional healers.
- Exploring innovative models of palliative care delivery to improve access, quality, and sustainability.
- Highlighting the role of technology and AI in enhancing diagnostics, imaging, and patient-centered care.
- Addressing the availability, access, and use of essential palliative care drugs, including oral liquid morphine, and other drugs for symptom management.
- Strategies for Integrating Palliative Care into the health system to ensure accessibility of services e.g. Primary Health Care (PHC), community-based approaches, developing hospital and home care teams.
- Palliative care as a cornerstone in mainstream disease management including timely integration into the management of specific conditions and rehabilitation, e.g. neurologic conditions, sickle cell disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, etc;
- Utilising diagnostics and imaging technologies in palliative care and allied health services.
- Strengthening and expanding the inter-disciplinary team for palliative care e.g. physiotherapy, pharmacy, traditional healers.
Strengthening Palliative Care Education, Training, Leadership and Advocacy
- Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.
- Establishing palliative care teaching in African Universities e.g. medical and nursing schools widely and stimulate research could be addressed.
- Developing, empowering and mentoring the palliative care leaders of the future.
- Strengthening advocacy strategies and communication around palliative care.
- Building education and training programmes to strengthen palliative care knowledge and skills among healthcare providers, policymakers, and communities.
- Establishing palliative care teaching in African Universities e.g. medical and nursing schools widely and stimulate research could be addressed.
- Developing, empowering and mentoring the palliative care leaders of the future.
- Strengthening advocacy strategies and communication around palliative care.
Paediatric and Adolescent Palliative Care
- Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
- Exploring family-centered...
- Addressing the unique palliative care needs of neonates, babies, children, and adolescents and their families.
- Exploring family-centered approaches, caregiver support, and strategies to improve outcomes for paediatric patients.
- Supporting children and adolescents through the many transitions that they experience during their life and their treatments.
Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Holistic Approaches
- Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
- Discussing ...
- Integrating spirituality, psychosocial support, mental health and creative arts into palliative care to address emotional and psychological well-being.
- Discussing approaches to support patients and families through death, dying, and bereavement, with an emphasis on cultural sensitivity and holistic care.
- Caring for the Caregiver.
Ethical, Legal, Financing and Policy Dimensions of Palliative Care
- Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
- Addressing ...
- Examining ethics, laws, and policies in palliative care, including issues related to patient autonomy, informed consent, access to essential medications.
- Addressing end-of-life care planning, decision-making, and compassionate bereavement support.
- Discussing policy solutions to improve equitable access to palliative care services and essential medications.
- Financing Palliative Care and allied health services.
Palliative care in crisis: humanitarian, climate, pandemics.
- Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and displacement.
- Strengthening the health care in palliative care medicines
- Developing strategies and policies to strengthen palliative care systems and provision in the face of humanitarian crises such as climate change, conflict, and displacement.
- Strengthening the health care in palliative care medicines
Workshops
1. Advancing Evidence-based Palliative Care Research: Navigating Challenges and Proposing Solutions - Areas of Research to focuses on:
- Achieving Person-centered care and Quality of Life for all.
- Quality of medical practice.
- Early Screening.
- Resource allocation.
- Training of clinicians.
- Research in the Community Setting.
- Achieving Person-centered care and Quality of Life for all.
- Quality of medical practice.
- Early Screening.
- Resource allocation.
- Training of clinicians.
- Research in the Community Setting.
2. Monitoring and Evaluation in palliative care
- Monitoring and Evaluation in palliative care
- Monitoring and Evaluation in palliative care
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