13th EAPC Congress

Kongress in Prag/CZ
30.5.2013, 08:00 - 2.6.2013, 20:00

13th EAPC Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care

The Scientific Committee invites you to join the 13th EAPC Congress

Lukas Radbruch We are happy to invite you to the 13th World congress of the European Association or Palliative Care. It will be the 13th time we will meet and learn from each others experiences, share knowledge, and start or revive collaborations.

Over the last years the EAPC congress became a popular and renowned forum for palliative care professionals from all around the world. The internationality as well as the multi-professionalism of this forum calls for a scientific programme which is as versatile as the audience it is designed for. We are happy and honoured to take up on the task to create this programme representing the many-sidedness of palliative care and we hope to meet the various interests of you – the congress participants.

The 2013 congress theme will be “Palliative Care – the right way forward”. The major thematic thread in the scientific program will relate to access to palliative care as a human right. The programme will discuss the gaps where this human right is not yet available, but also will discuss different models and ways to make palliative care available and accessible for everybody who needs it. This discussion touches ethical, legal, economical, medical, and social challenges which all need to be addressed.

The theme also mirrors the direction palliative care is heading to: forward! Against the background of this forward movement topics such as new developments in symptom control and service provision will be covered.
We are happy to see this forward movement also in the growth of the palliative care community which is mirrored by the increasing number of congress participants and the quality of the submitted abstracts. As always the scientific content of EAPC congress will be co-designed by the participants themselves, and we are very much looking forward to your input and the oral communication sessions and poster exhibition which will be building on these abstracts.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!

Lukas Radbruch
Chair of the Scientific Committee