The Congress “On care in Huntington’s disease: the need for evidence” for care professionals, focuses on recent (evidence-based) developments in the field of care for people with Huntington’s disease.
During this interactive congress, outcomes of research, acquired in the field of Huntington’s disease, will be exchanged, in order to allow us to come to the implementation of more evidence based treatment strategies and plans, with the goal of improving the quality of life of patients with Huntington’s disease.
Special themes of this conference are: diagnostics and evidence based treatment of neuropsychiatric behavioral problems, polypharmacy and end of life care in which both palliative care as euthanasia is discussed.
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Objective
The participant is aware of :
- the most recent developments regarding the diagnostics and new treatment strategies and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the most recent insights regarding Routine Outcome Monitoring of behavioral problems and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the “Forensic Early Signs of Aggression Inventory” how to apply and how to interpret.
- the most recent insights regarding the diagnostics and evidence based treatment of agitation and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the most recent insights regarding the diagnostics and evidence based treatment of apathy and depression and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the most recent insights regarding the frequency and backgrounds of suicide in patients with Huntington’s disease
- the most recent insights regarding the diagnostics and evidence based treatment of sleeping disorders in Huntington’s disease and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the most recent insights regarding the diagnostics and evidence based treatment of perseverative behaviors in Huntington’s disease and knows how to apply these insights in practice.
- the approach to polypharmacy in patients with behavioural problems in Huntington’s disease and knows how to apply the gained insights in practice.
- the fact that a life-limiting illness can shatter ones sense of meaning and purpose of life and learns how to help patients to re-build the sense that life is meaningful.
- the meaning of palliative care in the Netherlands for patients with neurodegenerative diseases and knows how this care in the Netherlands is being organized and provided.
- the meaning of palliative sedation and knows how palliative sedation in general, differs from palliative sedation in Huntington’s disease
- the definition of euthanasia and knows the criteria for euthanasia and assisted suicide as laid down in the Dutch law
- The participant learns about care in the final stage of life
Target group
Specialists in geriatric medicine, psychiatrists, neurologists, physical therapists, nurses, speech therapists, occupational therapists and dieticians
Start date
15 September 2016
Location
CORPUS
Corpus
Willem Einthovenstraat 1
2342 BH OEGSTGEEST