The future role of general practice in palliative care and bereavement

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The future role of general practice in palliative
care and bereavement
Symposium
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Palliative care and bereavement

• Traditionally an important part of family
  physicians job
• Telling the patient about death and provide end
  of life care
• Supporting relatives in caring and in bereavement
• Need for state-of-the-art palliative care
• Special palliative units and teams and hospice
• However
• Whish to stay at home and receive specialised
  care and support
• Not specialised capacity for all in need for
  palliative care
• Shared care and coordination
• How do we manage to succeed and provide high
  quality care?

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Presenters

• Mette Asbjørn Neergaard, GP, PhD in spe
• Birgit Aabom, GP, PhD
• Bodil Abild Jespersen, Consultant at palliative
  department
• Trine Brogaard, MD, PhD student
• Mai-Britt Guldin, Psychologist, PhD student

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Outline

• 4 presentations on Palliative care
• Mette The role of the GP in palliative care
• Birgit Does the GP make a difference in
  palliative care?
• Bodil How does the specialist in palliative
  medicine see the role of the GP?
• Trine Palliative home care. Can we improve
  quality by implementing shared care?
• Discussion
• 2 presentations on Bereavement
• Mette The role of the GP in bereavement
• Mai-Britt How can we organize bereavement care?
  An intervention study
• Discussion

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Practicalities

• We will stop precisely 1215.
• Language is English
• Please, feel free to ask questions in Nordic and
  we will try to translate