Main Topics

• Palliative Care in the world - a view across borders
• Palliative Care as a medical discipline - here and now
• Palliative Care - indispensible also for non-oncological diseases
• The comprehensive services required by the old and ailing patient
• Teamwork - the key for a successful Palliative Care program
• Interpersonal communication betwen professionals and laymen in the multicultural context
• Palliative Care services in different settings (cultures, geographical locations, etc.)
• Training professionals in Palliative Care
• Enhancing volunteer support
• Palliative Care and the media
• Palliative Care and spiritual support
• Palliative Care in the regular hospital wards
• Palliative Care in long-stay nursing care settings
• Research in Palliative Care
• Complementary medicine in Palliative Care
• Spiritual support in various cultural settings
• Sedation, feeding, active interventions, and euthanasia as critical ethical issues in end-of-life settings
• Legal aspects of Palliative Care
• Pain control - new and revised protocols
• Different approaches to symptom control
• Quality of life, definitions, and objectives
• Various approaches to human suffering (non-conventional, institutional, etc.)
• Ethical aspects of Palliative Care
• The role of volunteers