34th Annual Palliative Education & Research Day
Monday, October 23, 2023 - Online Event
Registration Opens June-July 2023
Welcome to Covenant Health
34th Annual Palliative Education & Research Day
Monday, October 23, 2023
Virtual Online Event
This year's theme is
Personalized Palliative Care: Caring for People & Communities
Honouring people where they are at
Ensuring that the needs and wishes of each person with a life-limiting illness and their family are understood.
Learn about palliative care needs and enhance your knowledge of the practical aspects of palliative and end-of-life care.
Explore current trends, issues and research with our invited guest experts and your colleagues.
Topic areas include:
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Back to Basics: Symptom management, direct clinical care
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Emerging Issues & Trends: Innovations and research in palliative and end of life care
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Challenging clinical care needs for palliative and end of life patients and their families
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Psychosocial/Spiritual & Wellness
Supporting patients and their families throughout their illness trajectory may be challenging.
Increasing our understanding of a person’s unique journey contributes to a person and family centered approach to care. Improving personalization and honouring people where they are at, enhances overall quality of care and life, decreases suffering, and may even extend survival.
Caring for people and their communities is at the heart of what we do.
Join us in sharing your clinical and research insights into how we can improve palliative care to more fully honour individuals and communities.
Through trust, knowledge, communication, compassionate care and awareness of social, cultural and individual factors, health care providers can facilitate an environment that respects, responds, values and embraces diversity and individual preferences. Caregiver awareness and understanding of various social determinants of health (including race, ethnicity, religion, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity and other factors affecting the person) will both impact and influence patient-provider interactions, clinical decision making and individual interpretations of life, death, dying and bereavement.