PCNA Conference 11-12 Sept

The Centre led a workshop at the conference on “Planning Palliative Care for People with Dementia in Aged Care and Other Settings”. The workshop used a ‘world café’ style and was attended by around 30 senior nurses and aged care managers. Professor Deborah Parker, who will be starting work at the Centre in October, led an introduction to the Residential Aged Care Palliative Approach Toolkit, which has been rolled out in 1,000 aged care facilities. Jill Allsopp and Dr Tim Luckett introduced resources from the Centre-run IDEAL Project, which support case conferencing with families of residents with advanced dementia. Finally, Joy Cocker led discussion of advance care planning based on a report recently published by the Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre and HammondCare.