Primary palliative care is a fundamental aspect of high-quality care for patients with a serious illness such as dementia. Join the expert medical education team at Dementia Training Australia for a webinar that will help GPs who care for dementia patients recognise prognostic indicators for the end-of-life stage and outline the importance of reviewing and rationalising interventions in line individual goals of care.
The webinar will also examine the importance of a person-centred approach.
Lastly, the webinar will highlight how communication at end-of-life can impact bereavement and how GPs can support caregivers in relation to grief and bereavement as they are in a unique position to initiate such discussions.
The webinar is aimed at GPs but is inclusive of general practice nurses and other professionals with an interest in this topic.
This is an RACGP approved activity- Educational Activities 1hr
Learning outcomes:
- Recognise the prognostic indicators for a person living with dementia, who is transitioning to the end-of-life stage
- Review and rationalise interventions, in keeping with the person’s end of life goals of care
- Examine a person-centred approach to initiating measures to maintain the person’s comfort during end-of-life care.
Speaker information:
Dr Steph Daly is a specialist GP in Dementia. She is a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and has completed post-graduate training in Dementia Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK. More recently since moving to Australia she has become an advocate for patients living with Dementia and has facilitated the practice she works at becoming one of the first dementia-friendly (Dementia Australia approved) GP surgery’s in Australia
Dr Peter Silberberg is an experienced GP, GP Supervisor and medical educator. He joined Dementia Training Australia as a medical educator in 2022. He has worked in many primary health sectors and currently works as a GP as the lead clinician at Rekindling The Spirit Health Service in Lismore (AMS) and as a GP at Lennox Head Medical Centre.