Sharing the Knowledge in Hospice Palliative Care

September 28 & 29, 2012

Holiday Inn, Truro, NS

Fees:

Interest Group Meetings: free
Pre-Conference Workshop: $50
Day of the Dead evening Social: $10
Conference: September 29: $140

Accommodations:

The Holiday Inn will have a conference rate of $115 per night. Contact 1-866-863-3351 and refer to the Hospice Society conference, or click here to book online.

Registration forms available here. Please print and complete and either fax, email or mail in to Hospice with payment.

Email info@cehhospice.org or call 902-893-3265 for more information.

Friday, September 28

8:30
Registration

9:00
Interest Group Meetings
Palliative Nurses
Social Workers
Hospice Societies
Volunteers
(please let us know if you would like to host an interest group)

12:00
Lunch Break on your own

1:30
Using Critical Reflection to Improve Your Professional Practice
Jan Fook, PhD, AcSS, Prof/Director, School of SocialWork, Dalhousie University

Supper on your own

7:00
Day of the Dead Social
In the Mexican tradition, join us as we celebrate!
Hors D’oeuvres and Cocktails (Cash Bar)
$10 per person

Saturday, September 29

8:00
Registration

8:30
Welcome

8:30
Speaker/Topic TBA

10:30
Nutrition Break

10:45
Experiences with Care at the End of Life in Nova Scotia: A population-based mortality follow back study
Dr. Fred Burge

11:45
Light Lunch

12:30
Intimacy and Sexuality in Palliative Medicine: The Silent Domain
Dr.Jeff Dempster

1:40
This Aint No Family Picnic: dealing with families during the palliative process
Serena Lewis, Hospice Social Worker

2:40
Break

3:00
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Recent events in Canada and the international context
Janet Dunbrack

Current Resources

• Conference Brochure & Registration

Resources From Past Conferences

• “Caring Too Much” – Elizabeth Causton
  • Small Communities. DOC
  • Caring Too Much. PPT
  • Reading List. DOC
• “Death as a Series of Losses” – Elizabeth Causton
  • Death as Loss. PPT
• “That’s a Good Question” – Elizabeth Causton
  • That’s a good question. PPT
• “Breakthrough Cancer Pain” – Ann McKim and Cathy MacMillan
  • Break Through Cancer Pain PDF
• Hospice Greater Saint John – Atlantic Canada’s First Residential Hospice – Sandy Johnson, CEO
  • RH Presentation. PPT
• The Many Losses of Alzheimer’s – Chantel Bishop, RN
  • “Losses of Alzheimer’s”. PPT