Abstract

British Geriatrics Society East Anglia Region Summer Meeting 2018 incorporating the 11th SAFE Community-Hospital MDT Interface Meeting

“Frailty and end of life care: multidisciplinary education across care settings”

Wednesday 8th of August 2018

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The meeting is organised by the Department of Medicine for the Elderly (DME) and Specialist Advice for the Frail Elderly (SAFE) teams, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

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Co-chairs: Dr Claire Nicholl, Consultant Geriatrician (DME), CUH Darryl De Souza, Senior Physiotherapist, SAFE team, CUH

Programme 9:00 – 9:30: Registrations

9:30 – 9:45: Prof Patrick Maxwell,Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine: Opening address

9:45 – 10:05: Kelli Torsney: Markers of clinical complexity in Parkinson’s disease

10:05 – 10:25: Peter Hartley: Hospital deconditioning in practice and research

10:25 – 10:45: Alex Giasemidis: The role of the social worker in the geriatric multidisciplinary team

10:45 – 11:05: Trish Rowland: JET Team

11:05 – 11:30: Mid-morning break

11:30 – 11:50: Yvonne Cartwright: Advanced care planning

11:50 – 12:10: Rhiannon Maslen: The challenges of last days of life

12:10 – 13:00: Key Note lecture: Claire Nicholl: Geriatric Education: past, present and future

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 14:20: Rhian Simpson: Frailty and end of life care in the community setting

14:20 – 14:40: James Diver: Preferred place of death

14:40 – 15:00: Lorraine Moth: Arthur Rank Hospice: end of life care

15:00 – 15:20: Judith Wroe: The perspective of a care home manager

15:20 – 15:40: Victoria Keevil: Admissions to CUH from care homes: service evaluation

15:40 – 16:00: Alistair Mackett: Medication rationalisation in care homes

16:00 – 16:30: Panel discussion and closing remarks

CPD approval will be sought from the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for category 1 (external) CPD credits (code: TBC )

Organising Committee: - Darryl De Souza, SAFE - Roman Romero-Ortuno, DME - Claire Nicholl, DME - Jane Wilson, DME - Matthew Butler, DME - Victoria Keevil, DME - Kelli Torsney, DME

Speaker biographies: - Prof Patrick Maxwell: Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. - Dr Kelli Torsney: Academic Clinical Fellow (Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke’s Hospital) and Honorary Visiting Fellow, Clinical Gerontology Unit, University of Cambridge. - Peter Hartley: Senior Physiotherapist (Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke’s Hospital) and PhD fellow, Clinical Nursing Research Group, University of Cambridge (funded by Dunhill Medical Trust). - Alex Giasemidis: Social Worker (Cambridgeshire Older People’s Discharge Planning Team) and DProf Research Student (Health and Social Care) at Anglia Ruskin University. - Trish Rowland: JET Clinical/Operational Manager, Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely. - Dr Yvonne Cartwright: Consultant in Palliative Care, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. - Rhiannon Maslen: End of Life Care Education, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. - Dr Claire Nicholl: Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. - Dr Rhian Simpson: Consultant Community Geriatrician, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust. - Dr James Diver: Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. - Lorraine Moth: Palliative care matron for ‘the Arthur Rank Community Team ’ and “Hospice at home” lead. - Judith Wroe: Senior general manager, Hilton Park Care Home. - Dr Victoria Keevil: Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. - Dr Alistair Mackett: Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.