The Palliative Care module provides lectures that focus on the unique challenges faced by caregivers and clinicians in caring for patients with neurological disease. The module also features topics that focus on difficult conversations related to advanced care planning and end of life care for patients with neurological disease.

Education Committee Chairs: Patrick Wen, Isabel Arrillaga- Romany

Co-Chair: Erin Dunbar

Topics in this track include:

• Overview of Palliative & Hospice care
• Advanced cancer care planning, including patient documents
• End of Life
• Symptom cluster: cognition and memory
• Symptom cluster: physical debility/mobility
• Symptom cluster: bowel & bladder and skin failure
• Symptom cluster: mood (agitation/delirium/depression)
• Symptom cluster: (fatigue/hypersomnolence)