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Session Overview
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Parallel session 1b: Supporting professional caregivers
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Sofia C. Zambrano, University of Bern, Switzerland
Chair: Luc Deliens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Language: English
 

Absence of grief care: Japanese medical professionals have no place to grieve

Aki Morita



We are all mortals – Undergraduate nursing students’ reflections following a seminar focused on proactive end-of-life communication

Malin Eneslätt, Ingela Jobe, Catharina Melander



Increasing access to primary palliative care through undergraduate education: New Zealand medical and nursing graduates’ preparation, self-efficacy and attitudes towards providing palliative and end-of-life care.

Elisabeth Ellen Heath, Richard Egan, Ella Iosua, Robert Walker, Jean Ross, Rod MacLeod



Developing an appropriate model of palliative care for mainland China: exploring the application of alternative medicine in the Shanghai model

Chenyang Guo, Xinyan Cheng



"If death was told to me": Youth literature as a creative means to discussing death

Deborah Ummel, Émilie Lauzière, Rassy Jessica

Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 2b: Promoting inclusion and participation
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Emma Hodges, Compassionate Communities UK, United Kingdom
Chair: Joachim Cohen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Language: English
 

Understanding caregiving for people living with cancer alongside homelessness and poverty at the end-of-life

Amber Bourgeois, Ashley Mollison, Kara Whitlock, Alexandra Stewart, Melissa Giesbrecht, Kelli I. Stajduhar



Aging and social participation in deprived communities: Dimensions of exclusion and inclusion

Dzenana Pupic, Klaus Wegleitner



“We are just caring for our neighbors”: Improvising community-based palliative care in Jakarta, Indonesia

Hanum Atikasari



Identifying facilitators, barriers, and strategies to optimize recruitment of volunteer navigators for implementing a navigation intervention for older people with cancer and their families: a mixed-method study embedded in the international EU Navigate pragmatic randomized controlled trial

Helena Du Cheyne, Rose Miranda, Tinne Smets, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Roeline Pasman, Barbara Pesut, Wendy Duggleby, Andrew Davies, Barbara Gomes, Davide Ferraris, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Lieve Van den Block, Kenneth Chambaere



Improving access to palliative care services in Uganda through health promoting palliative care approach: a case of mobile hospice mbararah

Mark-Donald Bikosa Mwesiga

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 3b: Building death literacy
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Elizabeth Mary Johnson, The Peaceful Presence Project, United States of America
Chair: Marc-Antoine Berthod, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Language: English
 

The how and why of home funerals

Rebecca Jane Lyons



Creating Compassionate Communities after loss: Results from the evaluation of an international grief literacy program

Kerrie Noonan, Saif Mohammed, Suresh Kumar, Anand Haridas, Niki Read



“To philosophize means learning to die” – developing death literacy in communities of philosophical and palliative care practice

Sandra Radinger, Patrick Schuchter, Stefanie Rieger, Klaus Wegleitner



Reciprocal benefits of including end of life doulas in community palliative care: learning from pilot projects in the UK

Emma Catherine Clare



Patient-Centred Hospitals: an innovative training programme for integrating comprehensive and palliative care in healthcare facilities ((QELCA©) Programme)

Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Marcela Specos, Rut Kiman, Delia Fernández, Liz Bryan, Gustavo De Simone

Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 4b: Volunteering and citizen perspectives
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Farzana Khan, University of Edinburgh / Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, Bangladesh, People's Republic of
Chair: Birgit Weihrauch, Caring Community Köln; Verein Endlich Palliativ & Hospiz UK Köln e. V., Germany
Language: English
 

A benefit-cost analysis of an international hospital end-of-life care volunteer service: The iLIVE Volunteer Study

Claudia Fischer, Michael Berger, Misa Bakan, Ellershaw John, Haugen Dagny, Goossensen Anne, Mason Stephen, McGlinchey Tamsin, Ruiz-Torreras Inmaculada, Smeding Ruthmarijke, Van der Heide Agnes, Simon Judit



A 'buddy' as an additional resource in the care of patients with advanced, incurable illness and their families: Findings from qualitative interviews with patients, bereaved relatives and health and social care professionals.

Alina Kasdorf, Raymond Voltz, Julia Strupp



Pilot-testing and evaluation of the ‘Attentive Visitors’ training program to support community volunteers in their palliative care signposting role’

Sabet Van Steenbergen, Steven Vanderstichelen, Else Gien Statema, Luc Deliens, Sarah Dury, Kenneth Chambaere



Patient perspectives on conversations with healthcare professionals about life in the context of serious illness and palliative care

Malin Bengtsson, Stina Nyblom, Ramona Schenell, Lena von Bahr, Margareta Haag, Joakim Öhlén



Information meetings on end-of-life care for Turkish and Moroccan older people.

Tessa D. Bergman, Annicka G.M. van der Plas, Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, H. Roeline W. Pasman

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 5b: Transforming professional education
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Monica Fliedner, Inselspital, Switzerland
Chair: Max Kleijberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Language: English
 

Building bridges with rapport: experiences during telehealth in palliative care

Wendy English, Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott



Strengthening palliative care data Integration in national Health Management Information System (HMIS): The mobile Health surveillance story of data driven by compassion in Uganda

Cynthia Kabagambe, Lisa Christine Irumba



Increasing generalist provider competency in early palliative care: Results from the CAPACITI education randomized controlled trial

Hsien Seow, Samantha Winemaker, Marshall Denise



Continuing legal education on advance care planning: multi-sectoral partners co-develop a curriculum to increase clinical understanding, equip champions and evaluate best practices

Maureen Douglas, Charlie Chen, Nola Ries, Sara O'Dea, Melanie Blackwell, Shelly Chamaschuk, Shelley Waite, Eleanor Stewart, Tyler Hamil, Ellen Mi, Patricia Biondo, Maril Murray, Louise Kashuba



How can I choose? Personal end-of-life health literacy; a key factor for advance care planning.

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

Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Parallel session 6b: Engaging with children and young adults
Location: Hotel Bern - Room "Unionssaal 1"
Chair: Sibylle Felber, Local Organizing Committee | University Centre for Palliative Care Bern, Switzerland
Chair: Guy Peryer, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Language: English
 

Drawings about end-of-life issues: Analysis of pictures by children in Sweden during the 1st Covid-19 wave

Carol Tishelman, Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, Johanna Degen, Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage, Anna-Clara Rullander, Max Kleijberg



Lessons of Life for School Children: What We can do to Increase Compassionate Individuals and Communities

Keiko Chida, Taketoshi Ozawa



Normalizing death, grief, loss and care in a University of Applied Sciences community

Afke Tangenbergh, Marieke Groot, Erica Witkamp, Saskia Klinkenberg



Using narrative data to engage young adults in conversations about dying and death

Kristina Alexis Smith, Susan Law, Philippe Blanchard, Kim Widger, Kelli Stajduhar



Evaluation of the teacher training phase of the School Bereavement Programme in Northern Ireland

Jodie Adele Crooks, Joan McEwan, Christine Irvine, Katarzyna Patynowska, Austin Orr, Tracey McConnell, Giles Skerry, Susannah Baines


 
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