End of Life Care: Sharing Your Wants and Wishes

HealthInsight is hosting a collaborative community event to promote end of life care awareness and the importance of having planning conversations. Patients, families, researchers, providers, policymakers, payers and the local community are invited to this event to participate in interactive presentations and discussions. We will address end of life care issues in Utah and encourage community member input on planning conversations, policy change, and fostering alliances between patients and providers. 

 

At the end of this conference, participants will:

  • Understand why advance care planning is important 
  • Understand how to share advance care planning decisions with family and health care providers 
  • Be able to effectively address advance care planning communication barriers in your family 
  • Be able to find the appropriate tools, resources, and contacts for you and your family's advance care planning needs


Keynote Speaker

Anthony Back, MD, is professor at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and codirects the UW Center for Excellence in Palliative Care with Randy Curtis. He studies patient-clinician communication and interventions to make clinicians more effective. He was the principal investigator for the Oncotalk interventions, wrote Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients with Bob Arnold and James Tulsky, released the first iPhone app for clinician communication skills and is a 2013-2014 Contemplative Studies Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute.

$25.00

Free for patients, family members, students and community members!

Breakfast and lunch will be provided.   

For more information and to register, visit their website www.healthinsight.org/eol-summit 

 

Start Date + Time April 21, 2017 @ 8:00 am
End Date + Time April 21, 2017 @ 4:00 pm
Location Doty Education Center - Intermountain Medical Center Campus