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Session Overview
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Kornhausforum, 2nd floor, 3011 Bern
Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Plenary 2: Death literacy - how to develop, how to measure
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Joachim Cohen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand
Chair: Carol Tishelman, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Language: English
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Parallel Session 1a: Building equity
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Therese Johansson, King's College London, United Kingdom
Chair: Stephen Robert Connor, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, United States of America
Language: English
 

The impact of area deprivation on access to and utilization of health services in the last year of life: a retrospective population based cohort study

Jackie Robinson, Bert van der Werf, Daniel Exeter, Jinfeng Zhao, Janine Wiles, Merryn Gott



“I don’t know what options there are”: Indigenous families’ experiences with cancer and assisted dying in Aotearoa New Zealand

Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell, Jackie Robinson, Lisa Williams, Jeanette Scurr, Tau Huirama



What matters to Pakistani women during dying, death, grief and caring at the end-of-life: an intersectional participatory study

Mariam Fargin, Inayah Sher, Shabina Bashir, Samina Begum, Jamilla Hussain



Developing the Intervention to optiMise Palliative caRe for peOple with liVed Experience of homelessness (IMPROVE)

Briony Hudson, Caroline Shulman



"Living well until the end" - promoting death literacy for older people with a migration biography and/or a precarious socio-economic background

Anna-Christina Kainradl, Klaus Wegleitner

Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Plenary 3: The end of life in marginalized populations
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Farzana Khan, University of Edinburgh / Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, Bangladesh, People's Republic of
Chair: Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria, Canada
Announcement of the PHPCI Community Building award winner
Language: English
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 2a: Accessing care
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Malin Eneslätt, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda
Language: English
 

Queering the death system – perspectives from LGBTQ+ people in Sweden

Max Kleijberg, Lars E. Eriksson



Access to palliative care in India: a time to travel analysis of 526 non-governmental palliative care facilities in India.

Parth Sharma, Harsh Thakkar, Aryan Patil, Siddhesh Zadey, Priya Chembon, Preeti Chauhan, Raj Kalady, M R Rajagopal



Improving access to and delivery of palliative care for underserved populations: a 5-year research program

Jaklin Ardath Eliott, Gillian Harvey, Kate Gunn, Anna Chur-Hansen, Gregory Crawford, Caroline Laurence, Clemence Due, Ann Dadich, Lucie Walters, Ali Lakhani, Timothy To, Linda Foreman



Co-development of recommendations to improve access to care for structurally marginalized people with life limiting cancers: process and outcomes

Tara Horrill, Kelli Stajduhar, Jess Crawford, Amber Bourgeois, Jagbir Kaur, Scott Beck, Leah Lambert, Michael Mckenzie, Annette Browne



Walking alongside Indigenous Peoples who are seriously ill: Education for community caregivers

Holly Prince, Jessica Wyatt, Kassandra Fernandes

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 3a: Experiencing bereavement and caregiving
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Julia Rehsmann, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand
Language: English
 

Findings from Ireland’s first National End of Life Survey; a survey of bereaved relatives on care provided to family members and friends in the last three months of life

Donnacha O' Ceallaigh, Conor Foley, Tracy O' Carroll, Ella Tuohy, Rachel Flynn



Grief Kind-bringing grief literacy into people's living rooms and lives

Bianca Neumann



Learning by Experience: Does caregiving for loved ones boost personal end-of-life health literacy?

Clément Meier, Maud Wieczorek, Sarah Vilpert, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Ralf J. Jox, Jürgen Maurer



Indigenous ‘dying’ gap: An auto-ethnographic reflection of one urban Indigenous family’s experience of caring for their dying mother

Tess Huia Moeke-Maxwell, Louise Lyons, Tau Huirama



Understanding the care received at the end of life through a family carer lens: analysis of free-text responses from a national post-bereavement survey in England and Wales.

Joanna Goodrich, Sophie Pask, Therese Johansson, Ikumi Okamoto, Lucy Budd, Stephen Barclay, Fliss EM Murtagh, Katherine E Sleeman

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Plenary 4: Bereavement companionship programs - luxury or societal standard?
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Saif Mohammed, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India
Chair: Libby Sallnow, University College London, United Kingdom
Announcement of the PHPCI Research Impact award winner
Language: English
Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024
8:30am
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9:00am
Warm up: with Seniorstars
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
"Don Quixote Revisited" - Choreography by Clare Guss-West , Carla Winkelmann & Nina Müller
9:00am
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10:30am
Plenary 5: Policy summit of PHPCI 2024: Global compassion! The ‘Bern Declaration’ on community engagement for the end of life
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda
Chair: Steffen Eychmueller, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

with
- Marie Charlotte Bouësseau, former Team Leader at the WHO Integrated Health Services Department
- Anne Lévy, Director-General of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Switzerland
- Christian Ntizimira, Executive Director of African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda

Language: English
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 4a: Developing sustainable policies
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Kerrie Noonan, Death Literacy Institute, Australia
Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Language: English
 

Bridging policy gaps in palliative care through political engagement: an action learning case study in Thailand

Ekkapop Sittiwantana



Keeping health care affordable - which health care components drive the cost of end of life care in hospitals?

Monika Hagemann, Steffen Eychmüller, Maud Maessen



Major discrepancy between peoples´ preferences for place of care and dying and actual place of death in Sweden.

Cecilia Larsdotter, Stina Nyblom, Hanna Gyllensten, Carl-Johan Furst, Anneli Ozanne, Ragnhild Hedman, Stefan Nilsson, Joakim Öhlén



Transferable policy solutions for supporting employed end of life family caregivers: Canadian Compassionate Care Benefit

Clare Gardiner, Kelli Stajduhar



“Why should I care?”: an audience reception study of public awareness campaigns on palliative care.

Marjolein Matthys, Kenneth Chambaere, Benedicte Deforche, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen, Leen Van Brussel, Kim Beernaert, Naomi Dhollander

12:30pm
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2:00pm
EAPC: Reference group meeting
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
This meeting is open to all participants
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 5a: Measuring death literacy
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Corina Wirth, Public Health Schweiz, Switzerland
Chair: Roman Rolke, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany
Language: English
 

Death Literacy Index: the development of the short form DLI-9

Kerrie Noonan, Andrea Grindrod, Sumina Shrestha, Sora Lee, Rosemary Leonard



Understanding death literacy in Birmingham city

Emma Hodges



Death literacy as a basis for dealing with death and dying in German-speaking regions

Kerstin Kremeike, Sophie Meesters, Raymond Voltz



Translating and adapting the Death Literacy Index in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden: characteristics and challenges

Therese Johansson, Steven Vanderstichelen, Carol Tishelman, Åsa Olsson, Corine A. Nierop-van Baalen, Marieke Groot, Lars E. Eriksson, Ida Goliath, Joachim Cohen

Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Parallel session 6a: Fostering compassionate communities
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Esther Nafula Wekesa, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
Chair: Clément Meier, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Language: English
 

Places of solace: a starting point for a Compassionate Community?

Sarah Dury, Bert Quintiens, Louise D'Eer, Hanne Bakelants, Joachim Cohen



Relationships while living with life limiting illness: What can Compassionate Communities offer?

Tess Cassidy, Liz Forbat, Sally Boa, Sarah Wilson



InVita! Pathways and actions for the creation of Caring Communities: discover, asses, focus, and commit

Silvia Tanzi, Elisabetta Bertocchi, Giulietta Luul Balestra, Ludovica De Panfilis, Martina Fiaccadori, Gabriele Bedini, Loredana Buonaccorso, Silvia Bertolotti, Cinzia Cavalli, Irene Barbieri



Willingness to support neighbours practically or emotionally: A cross-sectional survey among the general public

Bert Quintiens



Facilitators and barriers to developing Compassionate Neighbourhoods

Louise D'Eer, Kenneth Chambaere, Lieve Van den Block, Sarah Dury, Luc Deliens, Tinne Smets, Joachim Cohen

11:00am
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12:30pm
Plenary 6: Compassionate cities international
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Institute Pallium Latinoamerica/ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care WHO CC, Argentine Republic
Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Chair: Steffen Eychmueller, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Announcement of the PHPCI Early Career award winner
Language: English
12:30pm
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1:00pm
Conference wrap up
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Language: English

 
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