Health professionals in Queensland are invited to join the Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning for the 2024 National Advance Care Planning Week (ACP) Virtual Forum. This is an excellent opportunity to hear first-hand from expert speakers sharing ACP updates and initiatives to assist you in improving your ACP knowledge and practice.

The 2024 Forum will be held from Monday 18 March to Thursday 21 March as virtual lunchbox sessions over four days from 12:00pm - 1:00pm. All sessions will be live-streamed via Microsoft Teams.

We encourage you to use the Virtual Forum as a team education opportunity and conversation starter. Gather your colleagues for an informal lunch, listen to the presentations and discuss how you can apply your learnings to your workplace. The information presented during the Virtual Forum is relevant for health professionals and consumers located in Queensland.

Monday 18th March, 2024. Keynote Address (click the link to join the meeting)

12:00pm - 1:00pm. Supporting decision-making and advance care planning for diverse older adults in the community - Dr Craig Sinclair.

Dr Sinclair is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, based at the University of New South Wales. His key research interests include older adult decision-making, advance care planning and supported decision-making. He currently leads a multi-centre randomised controlled trial of the EARLI program, a combined life story work and advance care planning intervention among older adults receiving community-based aged care services in New South Wales and Western Australia. Dr Sinclair is also a member of the Advance Care Planning Australia Steering Committee.

Tuesday 19th March, 2024 - ACP for Diverse Groups (click the link to join the meeting)

Lunchbox session 1. 12:00 - 12:30pm - ACP in the LGBTIQ+ Community. Jenny Sargent, Clinical Nurse Consultant - Community, Nambour, LGBTIQ Community Ageing Network, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service
Lunchbox Session 2. 12:30 - 1:00pm - Advance care planning from a multicultural perspective. Lorella Piazzetta, Senior Cultural Diversity Coordinator, Health Equity and Access Team, Strategic Partnerships, Metro South Health

Wednesday 20th March, 2024 - Supported Decision Making and ACP (click the link to join the meeting)

Lunchbox session 1. 12:00 - 12:30pm - A missing step? Supporting first rather than substitute-decision making: Why now and how to incorporate it into your clinical practice. Anne-Louise McCawley, Community Engagement and Education Leader, Family and Domestic Violence and Elder Law Practice, Caxton Legal Centre Inc.
Lunchbox session 2. 12:30 - 1:00pm - ADA Law’s Supported Decision-Making Guide – making a positive difference. Karen Williams, Principal Solicitor, ADA Law, Chair, Queensland Law Society Health and Disability Committee, Queensland Delegate, Law Council Australia Elder Law Committee and Rebecca Anderson, Solicitor, ADA Law, Chair, Queensland Law Society Elder Law Committee

Thursday 21st March, 2024 - ACP for First Nations people and ACP for children and young people (click the link to join the meeting)

Lunchbox session 1. 12:00 - 12:45pm - Advance Care Yarning (ACY) 2024: Weaving the past with the present to revolutionise the future. Kat Hooper, First Nations Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, First Nations Project, PallConsult, Queensland Health
Lunchbox session 2. 12:45 - 1:00pm - Update on the Paediatric Statement of Choices. Associate Professor, Dr Anthony Herbert. Director of the Paediatric Palliative Care Service (PPCS) at Children’s Health Queensland, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the Queensland University of Technology and Project Lead for the Quality of Care Collaborative of Australia (QuoCCA) for Education in Paediatric Palliative Care and Group Leader of the Paediatric Palliative and Supportive Care Research Group at the Queensland University of Technology

IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ

Please register to attend the 2024 Virtual Forum. You can attend any or all sessions. Choose 1 TICKET to the 4-day Virtual Forum package to save time at registration.
Once registered, attendees can add the event to their Outlook calendar using the link in the registration email.
Registered participants will be emailed a link to join the online event a few days prior to the event
Recordings of the sessions will be made available for viewing after the Virtual Forum (To be confirmed).
Please note: Speakers and topics may change without notice.
All times shown are AEST (Queensland time).
This event will be broadcast via Microsoft TEAMS. Please ensure you have the latest version of TEAMS downloaded to your device. Attendee microphones and cameras will be disabled for this event. You can interact with speakers via the Q&A function.