Pontificia Academia pro Vita - Pontifical Academy for Life

Pontificia Academia pro Vita - Pontifical Academy for Life

Pontificia Academia pro Vita
WORKSHOP
“Assisting the elderly and palliative care”
Friday, 6 March 2015
Morning:
First Session: “Clinical care for the elderly at the end of life”
Moderators: H.E. Msgr. Fernando Chomali, Prof. Alfredo Anzani
09:00 – The challenges of assisting the elderly at the end of life
H.E. Msgr. Ignacio CARRASCO DE PAULA (Vatican City)
09:25 – Elderly at the end of life due to chronic degenerative illnesses
Dr. Armando GARCIA QUEROL (Argentina)
09:50 – Nursing care for the terminally ill elderly
Ms. Joan PANKE (USA)
10:15 – The use and abuse of analgesics in palliative care
Prof. Paolo PREZIOSI (Italy)
10:35 – The process of clinical decision-making for the elderly at the end of life
Prof. Daniel SULMASY (USA)
11:00 - Coffee Break
Second Session: “Ethical-antropological perspectives”
Moderators: Prof. John Haas, Prof. Monica Lopez-Barahona
11:20 – The central role of “relationships”: the elderly, healthcare workers, family and society
Prof. Pierre BOITTE (France)
11:45 – Beyond verbal communication in the care of the elderly patient
Prof. Adriana TURRIZIANI (Italy)
12:10 – Ethics and palliative care for the elderly
Dr. David ROY (Canada)
12:35 – Discussion
13:00 – Lunch
Afternoon:
15:00 – “Advanced care planning”
Dr. Carlos CENTENO CORTÉS, (Spain)
15:25 – Worrying tendencies in the care of elderly patients with dementia
Prof. Chris GASTMANS (Belgium)
15:50 – Ethical guidelines for “good accompaniment”
Prof. Leocir PESSINI (Brasil)
16:15 – Coffee Break
Third Session: “Socio-cultural perspectives”
Moderators: Prof. Adriano Pessina, Prof. Mounir Farag
16:45 - Elderly at the end of life. Spiritual aspects
Rev. Armando AUFIERO (Italy)
17:10 – Legal issues at the end of life
Prof. John KEOWN (USA)
17:35 – Pastoral care and the role of the family
Rev. Dr. Thomas TOMI (India)
18:00 – What is social solidarity?
Prof. Marco TRABUCCHI (Italy)
18:25 - Discussion
19.00 – Conclusion
SPEAKERS
AUFIERO Armando, President CVS International Confederation, Rome (Italy)
BOITTE Pierre, Professor of Medical Ethics, Catholic University of Lille (France)
CARRASCO DE PAULA Ignacio, President, Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican City)
CENTENO CORTÉS CARLOS, Director of the Palliative Care Unit, Clinica Universidad de
Navarra (Spain)
GARCIA QUEROL Armando, Cofounder and past Director of the “Hospice San Camilo”,
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
GASTMANS Chris, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University of Leuven
(Belgium)
KEOWN John, Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics, Georgetown University,
Washington (USA); PAV Corresponding member
PANKE Joan T., Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care Services, MedStar,
Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC (USA)
PESSINI Leocir, Superior General of the Camillians; Professor of Bioethics, University of Sau
Paulo (Brasil)
PREZIOSI Paolo, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, Catholic University of the Sacred
Heart, Rome (Italy); PAV Emeritus Member
ROY David, Director of the Research Laboratory on Ethics and Aging, Institut Universitaire de
Gériatrie de Montréal (Canada)
SULMASY Daniel, Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of
Medicine and Divinity School; Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical
Ethics in the Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago (USA)
TOMI Thomas, Director General, The Catholic Health Association of India (India)
TRABUCCHI Marco, Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Torvergata University;
President of the Italian Association of Psychogeriatrics, Rome (Italy); PAV Corresponding
Member
TURRIZIANI Adriana, Chair, Hospice “Villa Speranza”, Catholic University of the Sacred
Heart, Rome (Italy)