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:

• Back to Basics: Symptom management, direct clinical care

• Emerging Issues & Trends: Innovations and research in palliative and end of life care

• Challenging clinical care needs for palliative and end of life patients and their families

• Psychosocial/Spiritual & Wellness

Supporting patients and their families throughout their illness trajectory may be challenging.

Caring for those at the end of life is both challenging and rewarding work.

Join us as we explore what it means to be caregivers – both professionally and personally - and how we can approach this willing task, not only for the health and wellbeing of those we care for, but for ourselves.

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.

We hope that you will take the opportunity to attend in October and get involved in discussions and learnings across a range of topics, during keynote presentations and breakout sessions.