Moving Palliative and End-of-life Care Forward

May 17-21, 2010
Tory Building TB 95
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Conference Schedule

Mountain Daylight Time

  Monday
May 17
Tuesday
May 18
Wednesday
May 19
Thursday
May 20
Friday
May 21
09:00

12:00

Keynote:(20 minutes)

- The influences for a shift of end-of-life care out of hospitals in Canada

Donna Wilson

followed immediately by

Keynote Panel:

- Global location-of-death trends

Luc Deliens (Belgium)
Rod MacLeod (New Zealand)
Deepthi Mohankumar (United States)

(10-15 minutes each)

followed by open discussion

Action planning for policy, programs, services, practice, and research focused on location of death, and the place of palliative and end-of-life care

- Discussion Forum

lead by keynote speakers highlighting key points from previous day with hosts Allison Williams and Donna Wilson (Canada)

(15 minutes each)

30 minute coffee break at around 10:30 am

Canadian palliative and end-of-life care research presentations:

- Cross-country policy and Service Analysis

Allison Williams & team (Canada)

- Canadian changing pattern in location of death

Donna Wilson & team

- End-of-life care/case management

Sharon Kaasalainen & team (Canada)

(15 minutes each)

followed by open discussion, coffee break, and small group meetings (this room and breakout rooms), with attendees choosing a team to meet with

Canadian palliative and end-of-life care research presentations:

- The “good” rural and remote death

Donna Wilson & team (Canada)

- Rural community development model

Mary Lou Kelley & team (Canada)

- System navigation tool

Wendy Duggleby & team (Canada)

(15 minutes each)

followed by open discussion, coffee break, and small group meetings (this room and breakout rooms), with attendees choosing a team to meet with

Action planning for policy, programs, services, practice, and research focused on rural palliative and
end-of-life care

- Discussion

lead by keynote speakers and host Allison Williams and Donna Wilson (Canada)

30 minute coffee break at around 10:30 am

12:00

13:30
Networking Lunch Networking Lunch Networking Lunch Networking Lunch Networking Lunch
13:30

16:00*

Keynote:

- Alberta and other government policies and emerging strategies to support end-of-life care out of hospital

Vivien Lai (AB)
Peter Kitchen (ON)
Robin Fainsinger (AB)

(5-7 minutes each)

followed immediately by

Keynote:

- The state of evidence and practice globally on “location” of death

Joachim Cohen
Dirk Houttekier (Belgium)

(30-40 minutes)

followed by coffee break and open discussion

Keynote panel:

- An update on knowledge translation (KT)/p>

Stephen Birch (ON)
Kathy Kovacs-Burns (AB)
Adrian Wagg (AB)
and additional speakers (to be confirmed)

(60-90 minutes)

30 minute coffee break at around 10:30 am

followed by open workshop-style discussion focused on KT topics of interest to the audience

Canadian palliative and end-of-life care research presentations:

- End-of-life care setting transitions

Donna Wilson and Deepthi Mohankumar

- Family caregivers as transition agents

Kevin Brazil & team

- COPD end-of-life care transitions

Donna Goodridge & team (Canada)

- Overcoming care access barriers

Allison Williams and team

(15 minutes each)

followed by open discussion, coffee break, and small group meetings (this room and breakout rooms), with attendees choosing a team to meet with

Keynote:

- Why is there a need to focus on rural people?

Pam McGrath (Australia – by video)
Bonnie Brossart (Saskatchewan – by video)
Roger Thomas (AB)
Sharon Baxter (ON)
Luc Deliens (Europe)

(5-7 minutes each)

Keynote panel:

- Canada versus global rural aging and end-of-life trends

Joachim Cohen (Belgium)
Rod MacLeod (NZ)
Daren Heyland (Ontario)
Robin Fainsinger (AB)

(5-7 minutes each)

followed by open discussion, coffee break, and small group meetings (this room and breakout rooms), with attendees choosing a team to meet with

Keynote:

- Putting it all together

Sharon Baxter (CHPCA)

(30-40 minutes)

followed immediately by closing commentary

Closing:

- We think we can, we know we can!

Allison Williams, Donna Wilson, and Others Who Wish to Speak

* Friday session ends at 14:45