CONFERENCE AIMS - Showcase innovative and best practice approaches to advance care planning
- Highlight system change required to implement advance care planning
- Identify strategies that work well, are sustainable and are transferable
- Enable an international audience of health professionals to network, share ideas and issues around advance care planning
- Examine the role of advance care planning in providing quality care for patients and carers
- Provide opportunities for health professionals to improve their communications skills for advance care planning
Who should attend? All doctors, nurses, social workers, senior health managers and policymakers and other health professionals who are involved in end-of-life care and/or advance care planning and are committed to improving quality of care for patients. The program will be relevant to health professionals working in hospitals, aged care facilities and community health services, including palliative care.
