The 13th World Research Congress of the EAPC takes places from 16 – 18 May 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. Please find below the activities of the End-of-Life Care Research Group at the conference.
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Pre-congress seminar “Improving quality of life and wellbeing for patients with a serious illness AND their carers: towards a family-centered approach to care” (final DIAdIC conference)
Timeslot: 9am to 5.45pm CET
Venue: Aula Magna, University of Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 08007 Barcelona
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Thursday 16 May 2024
08:45 – 10:30 PL Opening Ceremony
Location: MR9 (upstairs)
Welcome from Chairs of Scientific committee
09:06 – 09:18 Speakers: Luc Deliens (Belgium) and Irene Higginson (United Kingdom)
11:15 – 12:45 OA 2: Communication
Location: MR5/6 (upstairs)
11:15 – 11:25 OA2.1 Advance Care Planning Definition: Perspectives of the European Working Group of People with Dementia and Supporters
Oral Presenter: Lieve Van den Block (Belgium)
11:15 – 12:45 Poster Discussion A
Location: MR7/8 (upstairs)
Chairs: Nicoleta Mitrea (Romania) and Luc Deliens (Belgium)
14:15 – 15:45 OA 7: Community Interventions
Location: MR7/8 (upstairs)
Chairs: Matthew Allsop (United Kingdom) and Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium)
15:05 – 15:15 OA7.6 Pilot-testing and Evaluation of a Training Program to Support Volunteers in their Palliative Care Signposting Role
Oral Presenter: Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium)
16:30 – 18:00 OA 13: Development & Organisation of Services
Location: MR1 (ground floor)
Chairs: Monica Fliedner (Switzerland) and Joachim Cohen (Belgium)
09:00 – 18:00 Research Methods Exhibition - PP Poster Set 1
Location: MR4 (ground floor)
1.075 Equivalence of Construct Validity of the Death Literacy Index in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Poster Presenter: Therese Johansson (Sweden), Co-author: Joachim Cohen
1.084 Specific Navigation Patterns: Exploring User Engagement of a Website to Support Advance Care Planning in Dementia
Poster Presenter: Charlèss Dupont (Belgium)
Friday 17 May 2024
08:00 – 08:45 EAPC Research Network open meeting
Location: MR5/6 (upstairs)
Chairs: Geana Paula Kurita (Denmark) and Joachim Cohen (Belgium)
08:00 – 08:15 Outcome and process evaluations in pragmatic RCTs in palliative care
Speaker: Lieve Van den Block (Belgium)
08:00 – 08:45 ME 2: How to Write a Paper
Location: MR7/8 (upstairs)
Chairs: Luc Deliens (Belgium) and Catherine Walshe (United Kingdom)
09:00 – 10:30 PL 2 Plenary Session: Innovation, New Technologies & Artificial Intelligence
Location: MR9 (upstairs)
09:30 – 09:42 RA2 EAPC Researcher Award Post Doctoral Award Winner: Libby Sallnow (United Kingdom)
11:15 – 12:45 TS 4: Methodological Issues in Researching End-of-Life Decision Making
Location: MR10/11 (upstairs)
11:35 – 11:55 TS4.2 How to research Medical assistance in dying - current challenges and future directions
Speaker: Kenneth Chambaere (Belgium)
14:15 – 15:45 EU Funded Research Projects Session
Location: MR5/6 (upstairs)
14:35 – 14:40 EU PAL-COPD
Speaker: Luc Deliens (Belgium)
15:15 – 15:20 DIAdIC
Speaker: Joachim Cohen (Belgium)
14:15 – 15:45 OA 21: Older People
Location: MR1 (ground floor)
Chairs: Lieve Van den Block (Belgium) and Sharon Kaasalainen (Canada)
16:30 – 18:00 EU Funded Research Projects Session
Location: MR5/6 (upstairs)
16:30 – 16:35 EU-CoWork
Speaker: Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium)
16:40 – 16:45 Eu Navigate
Speaker: Lieve Van den Block (Belgium)
16:30 – 18:00 OA 25: Older People
Location: MR1 (ground floor)
Chairs: Lara Pivodic (Belgium) and Marius Čiurlionis (Lithuania)
16:30 – 18:00 OA 26: Clinical Management & Education
Location: MR2 (ground floor)
:40 – 16:50 OA26.2 The Implementation Process of Digital PROMs and PREMs in Oncology Care: A Scoping Review
Oral Presenter: Anne-Lore Scherrens (Belgium)
16:30 - 18:00 OA 24: Psycho-Social & Spiritual Care
Location: MR7/8 (upstairs)
16:50 - 17:00: OA24.3 Palliative Care Interventions in Haematology: A Systematic Review of the Components, Effectiveness and Implementation
Oral Presenter: Sophie Hochrath (Belgium)
09:00 – 18:00 PP Poster Set 2
Location: MR4 (ground floor)
2.084 Feasibility and Acceptability of Experience Sampling Methods in Cancer Research: A Pilot Study
Poster Presenter: Joran Geeraerts (Belgium)
Saturday 18 May 2024
08:00 – 08:45 ME 6: How to Achieve Excellency in Your PhD Project
Location: MR7/8 (upstairs)
Chairs: Lara Pivodic (Belgium) and Sabrina Bajwah (United Kingdom)
09:00 – 10:30 OA 28: Primary & Integrated Care
Location: MR5/6 (upstairs)
09:40 – 09:50 OA28.5 How Advance Care Planning (ACP-GP) Was Implemented in a Cluster RCT: A Process Evaluation Using RE-AIM
Oral Presenter: Julie Stevens (Belgium)
09:50 – 10:00 OA28.6 General Practitioners’ Advance Care Planning Knowledge & Attitudes. Evaluating the Effects of the ACP-GP Intervention Oral
Presenter: Frederick Daenen (Belgium)
09:00 – 10:30 OA 29: Public Health & Epidemiology
Location: MR1 (ground floor)
Chairs: Libby Sallnow (United Kingdom) and Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium) 09:10 – 09:20 OA29.2 Looking Forward: Exploring Priorities for Public Health Palliative Care Research in Europe in the Coming Decade £
Oral Presenter: Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium)
E-Posters
3.018 Nation-Wide Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Spiritual Care: Implementation of the Netherlands Guidelines ‘Spiritual Care’ and ‘Grief’
Poster Presenter: Marie-José H.E Gijsberts (Belgium)
3.047 Adaptation of a Digital Health Intervention for Patients with Advanced Cancer and their Carers
Poster Presenter: Peter Hudson (Australia)
3.090 Developing Compassionate Workplaces to Protect Employees’ Health and Wellbeing: Presentation of the International EU-CoWork Project
Poster Presenter: Steven Vanderstichelen (Belgium)
3.208 Adapting Public Health Palliative Care Interventions to New Settings Using ADAPT Guidance: Nav-CARE as an Example
Poster Presenter: Fien Van Campe (Belgium)
Information stand End-of-Life Care Research Group
meeting room 12-13-14 on the 1st floor of the conference venue, next to Wisepress (library)
