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Compassionate Communities: Online sessions on end-of-life and palliative care

Topic:
End-of-life and palliative care
Speaker:
Various
Date and time:
Monday 12 to Thursday 15 October 2020
Location:
Online (Zoom)
Audience:
Anyone interested in end-of-life and palliative care

More than than 20 online sessions on topics such as grief, bereavement and end-of-life care will be held as part of this community-run educational event.

Hosted by locals involved in the Australian Government’s Greater Choice for At Home Palliative Care project, the four-day online educational event will run from 12 to 15 October and will be free to anyone who wants to take part.

Speakers include:

  • Michael Barbato
  • Prof Allan Kellehear
  • Prof David Kissane
  • Dr Kerrie Noonan
  • Zenith Virago.

Topics include:

  • palliative and end-of-life care
  • reorienting the health system
  • options for after-death care
  • how to improve death literacy
  • art projects.

Download the event flyer

Go to the event program and registration links

Read the speaker bios and abstracts

This program of events celebrates the work of the Waratah-Wynyard, Circular Head and Glamorgan Spring Bay communities under the Greater Choice for At Home Palliative Care measure – an Australian Government initiative supported locally by Primary Health Tasmania.

Some of these webinars are made possible through funding provided by the Tasmanian Department of Health under the Better Access to Palliative Care program.