Background:
People with life-limiting conditions such as cancer, heart disease, neurological conditions, and dementia can often experience issues with mobility and speech, disorientation, anxiety and depression that impact their quality of life. Technology offers a unique opportunity to support people with palliative care needs and their families, for example with symptom assessment, self-management, communication, environmental control and mobility. To respond to this challenge researchers in health, science and engineering share a responsibility with health care professionals to support successful evidence-based development of practical solutions that meet the needs of people with life-limiting conditions.
Seminar:
Designing and Developing Technologies for Palliative Care Seminar, Wednesday 12th June 2019, 9:45am – 16:00pm, Ashling Hotel, Dublin.
Purpose:
This timely all Ireland seminar will build awareness of the latest national and international research in palliative care and technology; and what this means for health researchers if they are to generate knowledge that can support the introduction of technology that improves the quality of life of the person with palliative care needs.
Objectives:
To understand the challenges for people with palliative care needs, the ethical and economic considerations when designing technology and how to promote implementation so that people with palliative care needs can access evidence-based technology.
To bring together and provide networking opportunities for researchers from medicine, nursing, psychology, allied health, pharmacy, law, health economics, science and engineering
To identify potential research collaboration opportunities to support successful implementation with evidence-based research and practice.
Seminar and Workshops sponsorship of €4,759 is requested to deliver the seminar.
