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Don’t Judge a Book by it’s cover – getting past the label and seeing the person in specialist palliative care services
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Location
Norton Park Conference Centre
57 Albion Road Edinburgh EH7 5QY United KingdomDescription
This conference is aimed at anyone with an interest in improving the quality of patient and carer experience within the context of palliative and end of life care. Key speakers and interactive workshops will explore particular areas of person centred culture. There will be a focus on how to improve access for marginal groups.
Workshops:
Workshop 1 - What’s Your Story: using formulations to enhance patient care
Understanding a person’s experiences can enhance our ability to promote individualised care to patients. This workshop will consider how we pull together those ‘bits’ of information held across a whole multi-disciplinary team to build a unique and helpful picture of our patients.
Workshop 2 - Walk with Dementia
An experiential workshop to explore the perceived world of someone with dementia.
Workshop 3 - Caring for Prisoners at the end of life: seeing the person
This workshop will present the opportunities and challenges as experienced by hospice and prison staff.
Workshop 4 - Buses, beaches and other metaphors: Integrating psychological flexibility with person centred palliative care.
The workshop will present an overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an intuitive and person-centred approach for supporting patients living with life-limiting illness, and their families. This is an approach that also builds self-care and resilience for us as well as for patients and for families. Participants will get a flavour of this way of working, how it applies to themselves and their patients, some tips and strategies that they can use directly, and links to further reading and exploration.
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Marie Curie’s vision is for a better life for people and their families living with a terminal illness. Our mission is to help people and their families living with a terminal illness make the most of the time they have together by delivering expert care, emotional support, research and guidance.