Call for abstracts – 2016 AAG Conference #AAGConf16

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Elissa

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While we’re on the subject of conferences being held in Canberra this year, the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) are extending the closing date for abstract submissions for their November conference, until Friday 29th April 2016.

The conference theme is “Capitalising on the Ageing Dividend: Reimagining Our Future” and submissions are welcome on a variety of ageing-related topics, including palliative care and end-of-life care.

What’s cool about the abstract submissions? Authors are asked to submit a 100-character “Tweetable” along with their abstract.

Visit the AAG website for more details on the conference and abstract submissions.

Photo: ‘The National Library of Australia and the Canberra Balloon Festival, March 2011‘ by Grey Nomad Australia, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Generic.

2015 in the Palliverse – conferences

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Elissa

As we adjust to the New Year (hello 2016), Palliverse is looking back at some of our posts over the past year. Being palliative care nerds, Team Palliverse have been lucky to attend numerous Australian, New Zealand and international conferences over the past year. Click the links below to attend vicariously or relive some of them:

11th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Taipei, May
ANZSPM Aotearoa Conference in Wellington, August
Renal Supportive Care Weekend in Sydney, August
13th Australian Palliative Care Conference in Melbourne, September
International Society of Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care Conference in Munich, September (#ACPEL2015)
3rd Australian Palliative Care Research Colloquium in Melbourne, October

Stay tuned in 2016 for more conference updates – Team Palliverse are already begging for leave and furiously submitting abstracts. And if you are attending a conference that would be of interest to Palliverse readers, and would like to share a summary, please contact us!

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Elsewhere in the Palliverse – social media edition

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Elissa

Social media is a broad term that includes all sorts of online platforms and interactions, from the blogs* I follow (and share) via my RSS reader, to Youtube videos, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, slideshare and beyond. This week’s “Elsewhere in the Palliverse” visits the intersection of social media, palliative care and research.

Watch the ehospice interview with Atul Gawande at their YouTube channel (above).
Is it possible to crowd fund a palliative care service? As I write this, the Resolution Care team are within USD $7000 of their USD $100 000 goal, with 19 hours to go. (via one of our favourite blogs, Pallimed)
If you don’t have time for Twitter, perhaps you should make time to read this… (by Carl Heslop aka @CarlosDenWA, a rural RN and public health PhD student in WA, via @croakeyblog)
Discussion of palliative care on Twitter is largely positive, and increasing, finds a study from Dr Amara Nwosu (of the Marie Curie Institute in Liverpool), published earlier this year in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care (via ehospice)
Some tips for conference organisers on how to optimise conference tweeting, by Sydney urologist and Twitterati Dr Henry Woo (@DrHWoo).
Henry’s advice is especially important when designing patient-friendly conferences (from @Colin_Hung at the Healthcare Leadership Blog).
Croakey shares 10 tips for using social media to promote health: reflections from Fertility Week. (Okay, so “Fertility Week” doesn’t immediately scream “palliative care and research” but these tips are translatable to palliative care promotion.)
Two articles from Sydney entomologist Dr Cameron Webb, Can social media increase the exposure of newly published research? and From publication to the public: Can blogging scientific papers stop people getting sick? (Short answer – yes!)
The UK-based CotEcast is a podcast for clinicians who care for older patients. The episodes have great names (and content), like “Breaking Bad Bones” and “The F Word”.
What do you think about the possibility of “Google Science”? (How Google Science Could Transform Academic Publishing, via Wired)

*including palliverse.com, of course!

Abstract submissions open for 2015 APHC

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Elissa

Online abstract submission is now open for the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference in Taipei, Taiwan (30 April – 3 May 2015), with the theme “Transforming Palliative Care”. More information is available at the conference website.

via @ehospice on twitter

	John Rieber on Human Rooms in Palliative Care…
	sonamdechenshop on I think therefore I am?…
	James on Palace of Care – True…
	sonamdechenshop on Palace of Care – True…
	Tina on Palace of Care – Second…
	sonamdechenshop on Palace of Care – No Matt…
	Tina on Palace of Care – Right t…
	James on I think therefore I am?…
	George F. on I think therefore I am?…
	James on I think therefore I am?…

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