Name: Palliative Care 2021
Start: 2021-12-27
End: 2021-12-29
Location: Italy

Conference Information

Past Conference Report

Palliative Care 2021

4th International Conference on Palliative Care and Gerontology, was held as a virtual event on April 26, 2021, with the help and participation of the Organizing Committee members.

First and foremost, we want to thank you for entrusting us with Palliative Care 2021, a global platform for discussing a wide range of critical issues in palliative care, gerontology, and healthcare.

There are many reasons for us to thank you for your assistance in making the Palliative Care 2021 conference a success. Without your continuous support and faith in our organization, Palliative Care 2021 would not have been able to achieve new heights in the field of palliative care.

The presence of young and excellent researchers, business delegations, and talented student communities from over 15 nations highlighted the conference, all of whom contributed to its success.

During COVID-19, the conference's subject was "Evolving Exploration of Palliative Care to Refine Wellness." The meeting developed a significant link between future palliative care, gerontology, and healthcare issues initiatives. Organizational cooperation will be aided by the shared conceptual and practical knowledge, which will speed up scientific advancement.

The Palliative Care 2021 podium saw an amalgamation of peerless speeches, Keynote speakers, well-known researchers, and delegates who enlightened the crowd with their enviable research knowledge and on various alluring topics related to the field of Palliative Care and Gerontology by their fabulous presentations on various alluring topics related to the field of Palliative Care and Gerontology.

The PULSUS Group is grateful to all members of the organizing committee, eminent speakers, young scientists, delegates, exhibitors, and students for their contributions. We'd want to thank everyone who contributed to making this event a success.

Organizing Committee Members

Virginia Lee | Essen Health Care | USA

Eduardo Mahecha Reyes | Surcolombian University | Colombia

Mouhawej Marie Claire | Hotel Dieu de France Hospital | Lebanon

Federico Lega | Bocconi University | Italy

Nermin Ozgulbas | Hacettepe University | Turkey

Zohreh Kazemi | Iranian Hospital | UAE

Honourable Guests, Keynote Speakers, and Chairs

Mouhawej Marie Claire, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Lebanon

Holly Lyon-Hawk, Holistic Funeral Director, United Kingdom

Maream AL Hobel, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Saudi Arabia

Zohreh Kazemi, Iranian Hospital, UAE

Sik-Kwan Chan, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Mei-Chyn Chao, Changhua Christian Children’s Hospital, Taiwan

Jacqueline Yammine, Cleveland Clinic, United Arab Emirates

Thahir Noorul Isra, SAFA Counselling Centre, Sri Lanka

Akshay Kumar Joshi, Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute, India

Amani Sindi, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia

Tayseer Afifi, The Islamic University, Palestine

Jinela Desouza, D Y Patil Hospital and Research Institute, India

Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University, USA

Farah Demachkieh, SANAD: The Home Hospice Organization of Lebanon, Lebanon

Virginia Lee, Essen Health Care, USA

Moderators

Jacqueline Yammine, Cleveland Clinic, United Arab Emirates

Amani Sind, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia

Media Partners

We'd like to express our gratitude to all of our media partners for bringing this event to a global audience. The following are some of our important supporting media partners:

Kind Congress, Vydya Health, Crowd reviews, PlacidWay, CourseForDoctors, Conference Clocate, Medical Events Guide, Venue Dir, Manuscript Edit and Novel Global Community Educational Foundation.

Palliative Care 2021 would not have reached its pinnacle without the help of an international, multi-professional steering committee and the coordination of the Journal of Nursing Research and Practice, the Journal of Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment, and the Journal of Health Policy and Management, for which we are deeply grateful.

We kindly invite you to our forthcoming 5th International Conference on Palliative Care and Gerontology, scheduled as a Webinar on November 29, 2021, as a follow-up to Palliative Care 2021.

We'll be focusing on all aspects of palliative care in 2021, including palliative and gerontology care, as well as research findings as therapeutic strategies. More innovative and exploratory sessions are being planned by our organizing committee in order to take the Palliative Care 2021 conference to new heights.

Your knowledge and skills in Palliative Care 2021 will enable you to debate and respond to a series of questions about the current state of palliative research.

We'd want to organize this conference with your assistance in order to bring all palliative care researchers together on one platform. We hope to have your cooperation in organizing Palliative Care 2021 on a large scale, your participation will be vital to the success of our conference next year.

We want to see you there, as well as your active involvement and support, to help us make this event a success once again.

It gives us great pleasure to invite you to our next Palliative Care 2021 conference.

Welcome Message!!

The Palliative Care 2021 Organizing Committee is delighted to extend an invitation to all of you to participate in the 5th International Conference on Palliative Care and Gerontology as a Webinar on November 29, 2021.

We are really delighted to encourage scientific information sharing and camaraderie among experts working in the complex and challenging field of palliative care.

The Palliative Care Congress 2021 will focus on creating high-quality keynote lectures, speaker sessions, seminars, and a young researchers forum that highlights worldwide high-tech advancements.

We are also excited to welcome prominent academics, scientists, surgeons, residents, and fellows from all around the world to share the latest cutting-edge ideas and technology in palliative care.

We are working hard to make this gathering a huge success and one that the attendees will remember. We hope to see you all at the Webinar on Palliative Care 2021.

About Palliative Care 2021

Our ideology at Pulsus Group is to give our attendees the most exposure possible, so we make sure the event is a mix of professionals from academia and industry, including palliative care specialists, gerontologists, scientists, palliative care researchers, academic scientists, and diagnostic laboratory professionals, making the Palliative Care 2021 annual meeting a perfect platform.

The Palliative Care Conference will be centered on the theme "A Step Towards Improving Palliative Care Quality of Care" Our goal is to provide an amazing curriculum that includes the whole range of research and developments in Palliative Care Treatment and Gerontology Care, as well as exchange cross-cultural experiences with various treatment processes and rehabilitation approaches.

Palliative Care 2021 is an annual gathering of palliative care consultants, allied health professionals, and committees to debate the future of palliative care in terms of diagnosis, treatment, and transition care development.

Why to attend???

This is your finest opportunity to reach the largest assemblage of individuals from the Palliative Community, with members from all over the world focused on learning about Palliative Care therapy and advancements. At this event, you can give presentations, share information, network with current and potential scientists, make a splash with new discoveries in palliative care therapy and diagnostics, and get your name out there. Palliative care aims to improve people's total health, including their physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being. This Palliative Care Conference features world-renowned speakers, the latest techniques, developments, and updates in the field of Palliative Care and its advanced treatments, which include medication, nutritional changes, relaxation techniques, emotional and spiritual support, and support for children or family caregivers.

Target Audience:

Palliative Care Specialist
Healthcare Communities
Geriatricians
Physicians
Hospice Nurse
Gerontologist
Medical Directors
Cardiologist
Palliative Care Nurse
Healthcare Professionals
Social Workers
Business delegates and trade professionals
Community care coordinators
Rehabilitation therapist
Students
Clinicians and researchers
Nursing Home Administrators

Congress Opportunities

For Researchers and Faculty Members:

Speaker Presentations
Poster Display
Workshop organizing

For Students and Research Scholars:

Poster
Young Researcher Forum
Student Attendee
Group Registrations

For Business Delegates:

Speaker opportunity
Networking opportunities
Delegate participation

Topics for Discussion

These are the most fascinating subjects we'll be debating at this virtual event.

Palliative Care
Palliative Care Management
Hospice Palliative Care
Palliative Care Nursing
Palliative Women’s Health Care
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Midwifery
Palliative Wound Care
Cancer Palliative Care
Mental Health Palliative Care
Palliative Care at Home
Pediatric Palliative Care
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Geriatric and Gerontology
Dementia
Trauma and Emergency Medicine
Pain and Symptom Management
Palliative Care Research
Palliative Care Services at The End of Life

Scientific Sessions

Session 01: Palliative Care

Palliative care can be given at any age and at any stage of a serious disease, and it can be given in conjunction with curative therapy. The objective is to improve the patient's and family's quality of life. The majority of states are going through health transitions, with a rapidly growing burden of chronic and irreversible diseases. They'll differ by area and method, based on their breadth of observation and practice variety. Palliative care oncology is a much-needed palliative care service for cancer patients all around the world. Palliative nursing assists the patient's entire family in dealing with their most difficult moments. Palliative care is primarily concerned with diagnosing, preventing, and treating symptoms that patients with a serious or life-threatening disease may suffer. There is a small distinction between palliative care and hospice care in terms of comfort. More than four million of people, according to WHO estimates, would benefit from palliative medicine and care.

Palliative care program and courses
Scope of palliative care
Benefits of palliative care
Problem-based teaching and learning
Need for palliative care

Session 02: Palliative Care Management

Palliative care management relies heavily on communication. It enhances the patient's quality of life by controlling pain and symptoms, focusing on the body, mind, and spirit, and reducing unnecessary hospital visits. All of them are necessary for managing palliative care. The Advance Care Planning of advancement includes reflection and communication. Regardless of the stage of the disease or therapy, healthcare specializations that care for patients with serious or life-limiting illnesses. Most crucial, whether it's hospice palliative care or palliative care at home, make the patient as comfortable as possible. During an illness or at the end of life, palliative drugs such as Morphine and others are used to manage discomfort and shortness of breath.

Increasing Complications
Accidental Emergency
Injuries and wound care
Diagnosis and Monitoring

Session 03: Hospice Palliative Care

Hospice care is designed to assist terminally ill patients and their families in coping with death. It begins when the disease's therapy has been discontinued and it is evident that the patient will not survive the sickness. Palliative care would also assist patients in understanding their medical treatment options. Hospice treatment is provided at no cost. Hospice palliative care is offered to patients who have been given six months or fewer to live and are nearing the end of their lives.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Kidney Disease & Failure
Congestive Heart Failure Treatment
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Session 04: Palliative Care Nursing

Nurses who specialize in palliative nursing care for people who are nearing the end of their lives. The roots, aims, and ideals of nursing and palliative care are all the same. For a nurse who can deal with the human reaction to complex phenomena including the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual elements of existence. On a daily basis, the nurses cope with bereavement. Nurses frequently form close bonds with these patients as they strive to fulfill their desires and assist them in dying with dignity and control. Nursing passion for a variety of palliative care disciplines, including mental health, oncology, psychiatry, midwifery, geriatrics, and many more.

Good listening skills
Nursing service management
Nursing palliative care specialist

Session 05: Palliative Women’s Health Care

The palliative care team strives to cover all aspects of palliative care, including not just the medical but also the emotional, spiritual, and social aspects. Most oncologists have been educated to provide primary palliative care to their patients, which includes basic symptom management and aligning treatment options with patient objectives in the case of pharmaceutical oncologists. There are a variety of significant hurdles to combining palliative treatment early in the course of an illness, such as advanced female internal sex organ cancer. Gerontologists specialize in the health care of the elderly, and they require hospice palliative care or palliative nursing at home.

Ovarian cancer
Palliative care in cancer treatment
Gynaecologic oncology
Obstetric malignancies

Session 06: Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Women with medical specialty cancer and women with a vertebrate or new-born with a likely life-limiting illness are among the obstetrics and medicine patients for whom palliative treatment is most appropriate. Patients with life-limiting illnesses, as well as obstetrician-gynecologists, should have a basic primary hospice palliative care skill set, as well as symptom treatment for common symptoms like pain and nausea, and communication skills like delivering bad news.

Adolescent medicine
Pediatric emergency
Neonatal care

Session 07: Midwifery

Midwives are educated to offer antepartum care as well as labor and delivery care. They have further coaching experience and certifications in areas like as birth education, breastfeeding consulting, and many more. Midwives work in a variety of settings, including hospitals of varying degrees of acquity, offices, birth centers, clinics, and private residences.

Maternal and child health
Midwifery classes
Women oncology
Menstrual cycle
Breast and ovarian cancer

Session 08: Palliative Wound Care

If the wound no longer responds to curative therapy or the patient can no longer take it, palliative wound care is an alternate strategy to reduce pain and enhance the patient's quality of life. While traditional wound care focuses on healing the wound, palliative care focuses on symptom management, addressing the issues of end-of-life care such as infection, pain, wound odor, exudate, and diminished quality of life. Patients with palliative wounds generally have long-term, potentially life-limiting illnesses with a diversity of syndromes that compromise skin integrity.

Wound Care Nursing
Maggot Debridement Therapy
Wound Treatment & Healing
Malignant Wound Management

Session 09: Cancer Palliative Care

Palliative care is essential for avoiding, controlling, and alleviating cancer symptoms as well as the adverse effects of cancer treatment. It plays a vital role in cancer detection by assisting patients in better understanding their prognosis and treatment goals, clarifying their expectations, and preserving their quality of life. Patients undergoing cancer therapy required additional hospice care and palliative medicine. Palliative care oncology, surgical medical specialty, and radiation medical specialty are three fundamental orders in clinical medical speciality. Treatment of growth and its unit of measurement include the most common types of illness treatment, such as surgery, therapy, and a variety of others.

Gastrointestinal Oncology
Palliative Sedation Theraphy
Skills and technique in clinical palliative care
Palliative Chemotherapy
Palliative hormone therapy

Session 10: Mental Health Palliative Care

Palliative care in mental health is driven by compassion as well as knowledge, skills, and attitudes. To describe the scope of palliative nursing and the nature of palliative care for patients with mental health disorders who already have them. For patients with severe chronic mental illness, the hospice palliative care approach, which is specifically within psychiatry, has the potential to increase quality of care, person-centeredness, and autonomy. Palliative care for those with mental illnesses, as well as the difficulty of treating physical illnesses in this demographic.

Psychopathology palliative care
Quality of life issues
Palliative psychopharmacology
Mood disorders
Rehabilitation palliative care

Session 11: Palliative Care at Home

A doctor, a nurse, and a social worker will make up the palliative care team. All of them will be palliative care experts. Palliative nursing can help you stay at home securely, giving gerontology patients an extra layer of support that can make a great difference in their quality of life. When a patient is admitted to the hospital for treatment of discomfort, shortness of breath, or other symptoms. It's a better approach for you and your family to deal with the challenges of living with a serious disease on a daily basis.

Midwifery care
Ways to manage medicine
Geriatric palliative care

Session 12: Pediatric Palliative Care

The focus of pediatric palliative care is on the family. It aids in communication and care coordination. They frequently serve as the child's "safe haven" and closest source of support. Both the child and the family profit from this. Child life specialists assist youngsters in gaining a better understanding of their illness. They employ play music composition exercises and other ways in pediatric hospice care. Palliative nursing provides an additional layer of support when it is most needed.

Pediatric midwifery care
Genetic Disorders
Pediatric physician care
Neurological Disorders

Session 13: Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Gastroenterology and hepatology are medical specialties that focus on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive and liver problems. Pancreas, liver, gallbladder, esophagus, thyroid, small intestine, and colon are the most common. Palliative therapy for individuals with decompensated liver disease has been underutilized in the past. Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) have a variety of symptoms as a result of the disease's systemic impact and recurring acute episodes, resulting in a steady reduction in quality of life. Palliative care is neglected and delayed for ESLD patients, despite substantial evidence that it improves quality of life in other critical illnesses.

Hepatic Trauma
Acute Abdominal Pain
HIV Disease and Gastrointestinal Tract
Acute Liver Failure
Complications of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

Session 14: Geriatric and Gerontology

The study of the challenges that aged people may face as well as the aging process is known as gerontology. Gerontology nursing is a multidisciplinary field that deals with the physical, mental, and social effects of aging. Geriatrics is a medical specialty that deals with the treatment and care of the elderly. They receive hospice care and palliative nursing from these experts.

Gerontology nursing
Geriatric disease and Dermatology
Geriatric physiotherapy
Geriatric medicine

Session 15: Dementia

Patients with dementia frequently have palliative care requirements that are not met, such as pain, and these patients are often over-exposed to costly treatments. Damage to brain cells causes dementia. The capacity of brain cells to communicate with one another is harmed as a result of such injury. When brain cells cannot interact properly, thinking, actions, and emotions may be hampered.

Alzheimer's disease is a neurological rare neurological disorder. Alzheimer's disease is the most well-known sort dementia. Alzheimer's disease is a chronic and complicated disease. Memory loss, coupled with a progressive decrease in other academic and thinking skills, known as intellectual capabilities, and changes in identity or conduct, are among the most timely indicators.

Vascular Dementia
Dementia treatment and care
Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimers
Alzheimers prevention and risk factors

Session 16: Trauma and Emergency Medicine

Trauma is defined as a bodily damage or pain produced by an outside source. Trauma often results in severe symptoms such as persistent pain. Trauma is still one of the leading causes of morbidity and death in the United States. Trauma and palliative care may assist and support patients and families through difficult, often life-changing situations, regardless of the final outcome.

Traumatic Stress
Trauma life support care
Disaster medicine
Levels of trauma

Session 17: Pain and Symptom Management

Palliative symptom management takes a holistic approach to sickness. Worry over aching exacerbates the combined effect of ache, therefore palliative medicine provides respite. In patients who are nearing the end of their lives, pain is an especially noticeable and agonizing condition. For total symptom relief, palliative nursing tackles the physical components of symptom as well as the psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of suffering. Patients may experience a variety of symptoms that are difficult to treat. The majority of pain will be reduced or controlled. Palliative care aims to alleviate suffering by providing expert pain symptom treatment.

Acute pain
Respiratory symptoms
Constipation
Uncontrolled symptoms
Pain perception

Session 18: Palliative Care Research

Palliative care is a type of hospice care. To develop knowledge based on local settings and surroundings, a lot of active study is required. Making a complete presentation regarding ongoing researches in palliative care oncology, gerontology, and presenting it as a conference with all of these details for overall career progress.

Pain and pain alleviation will be examined, as well as various symptoms such as exhaustion, delirium, nausea, feebleness, and psychological issues such as depression, demoralization, and others. Palliative medicine care reduces all of these symptoms. Social stressors, social support, familial issues, pharmacologic or non-pharmacological therapies, grief and sorrow are all examples of social elements.

Technologies in palliative care
Veterinary Palliative Medicine
Evidence based practice
Palliative and Hospice Care for Animal
Corona Virus

Session 19: Palliative Care Services at The End of Life

End-of-life care is included in palliative care. It might begin at the moment of diagnosis and continue during therapy. Palliative care is available in a variety of contexts. This could have taken place in hospital or private clinics, as part of a hospital medical team, in a palliative care unit or hospice, or in the community. Hospice palliative care and palliative nursing strives to assist you if you have a life-limiting or life-threatening illness at the end of your life. The focus on allowing patients to die with dignity is an important part of end-of-life care.

Hospice care
Care at home
Emotionally supportive to patients
Nursing care

Market Analysis

During the forecast period, the global palliative care market is expected to develop at a significant pace of 8%, rising from USD 3.18 billion in 2019 to USD 6.10 billion in 2027.

Palliative care is a type of specialist healthcare for people who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Patients receive such therapies from qualified healthcare personnel in order to properly cope with their illnesses. Counselling sessions are provided to the patient's family members in order to help them cope with their loss. These treatments are designed to help patients find the courage and fortitude they need to complete basic everyday tasks while also dealing with life-threatening diseases. The care plan includes spiritual and psychological components in addition to medical assistance. Palliative care is used to treat people with life-threatening illnesses such Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, renal disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The treatments offered in palliative care help with issues like insomnia, nausea, sadness, anxiety, shortness of breath, and constipation.

The rising occurrences of life-threatening diseases, as well as the growing older population, are driving up need for palliative care. The market is growing as a result of technological advancements in remote monitoring in the healthcare industry. Smartwatches and other wearable gadgets are utilized for remote monitoring. They provide signals to the team, informing them of the patient's condition. It identifies the likelihood of a fall, as well as changes in mobility, and promptly alerts caretakers. To increase their palliative care market position, several companies are focused on developing new tactics, such as launching new products and forming collaborations.

According to application, the cancer sub-segment accounted for about 40% of market revenue in 2019 and is predicted to expand at an annual rate of 8.5 percent throughout the forecast period. The demand for palliative care is increasing because half of the unit is dedicated to cancer diagnosis and treatment. During the forecast period, the hospice resident care sub-segment is expected to grow at the quickest rate of 11.3 percent, with a market share of 14.5 percent. The growing awareness of life-threatening illnesses, as well as the rise in residential hospice, contribute to the market revenue for this category. Due to the growing healthcare industry and the growing senior population, Europe is expected to hold a significant proportion of the palliative care market. During the projection period, the Asia Pacific area is estimated to grow at a rapid rate of 8.6%, generating considerable market revenue. With a 43 percent share of the palliative care market in 2019, North America is predicted to grow at an 8.1 percent CAGR through 2027. The well-equipped healthcare sectors, as well as the rising prevalence of life-threatening disorders and the priority for providing palliative care sectors in hospitals, are all contributing to the region's palliative care market's growth.

Current Challenges in Palliative Care

Annually Worldwide:

54 million people die (all causes)
30 million die from progressive organ failure or other illness
8.5 million die from Cancer
1.5 million die from HIV/AIDS.

Global Palliative Care Market, by Healthcare centres

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
UCLA Health
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
VITAS Healthcare
University of Washington (UW Medical Center & UW Medicine)
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association

Goals for the Future

The evidence suggests that integrating palliative care earlier in the treatment process has the potential to increase patient well-being and possibly length of life while also contributing to a significant decrease in healthcare costs.

Creating a supportive environment for patients at all stages of their condition.
Compassionate palliative care in the home and community that supports both the patient and the caregiver.
Bereavement and caregiver help from a professional.
Palliative care that is equitable and cost-effective.
Encouraging palliative care specialists to specialize in the same way that other medical disciplines do.
Using a "multidisciplinary" approach to palliative care

Participation Procedures

Whatsapp: +44 121 468 0849

Email: palliativecare@pulsusseries.com

All attendees can confirm their participation in Palliative Care Congress 2021 by following the steps outlined below.

Speaker or Young researcher

In the link below, submit your abstract of no less than 300 words, together with an updated biography and a recent photograph.
Here's where you may submit your abstract: https://palliativecare.pulsusconference.com/abstract-submission
You will get notification of whether your abstract has been approved or rejected within two working days.
Only accepted abstracts will be able to proceed with the next steps toward participation.

Delegates or Listeners

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