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The title of this 2025 edition reflects current challenges and prospects: Palliative care today: between good practices, ethical choices, innovation and humanity.
The event represents a valuable opportunity for reflection and in-depth analysis of the fundamental values and issues that characterise the practice of palliative care. It offers a space for professionals working in different care settings, both in general palliative care and in specialist care, to meet, exchange ideas and share experiences.
This edition opens with a reminder of the fundamental principles that inspire quality palliative care, before turning its attention to the future prospects for the sector.

Who is it for

The seminar is open to all those involved in the care network (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, educators, spiritual assistants, social and health workers, etc.) who are confronted, even occasionally, with users suffering from chronic progressive diseases or patients at the end of life.

Program

Seminar opening - 10:00 a.m.
Presentations:

General palliative care

• Fundamental to care - Chiara Mastroianni and Luciano Orsi
• Palliative sedation in nursing homes? The tension between alleviating suffering and sedation - Maya Monteverde
• Deprescribing medication in the elderly population: less talk and more action - Alessandro Valle

Specialised palliative care 

• The appropriateness of palliative care interventions in people with neurological diseases - Simone Veronese
• Suspension of nutrition/hydration - Luciano Orsi
• Dying: can we learn it? - Annina Seiler
• Psychedelics in Palliative Care: a valid support between Neuroscience and Mystical Experience - Christine Meier
• On the use of extended reality and artificial intelligence in palliative care - Oliver Kannape (presentation in English, remote)
• Virtual reality in the Palliative Care and EOC Support Clinic - Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser

Conclusion of proceedings - approx. 5.45 p.m.

Objectives

To stimulate reflection on a more conscious and sensitive approach to care, aimed at improving the quality of life and care of people with chronic progressive diseases, promoting equitable and widespread access to palliative care.

Registration

by 26 September 2025.
Participation is free of charge.

Scientific committee

• Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser, PD Dr. med., Head of the Palliative Care and Support Clinic, Cantonal Hospital Authority
• Alberto Chiesa, Dr. med., FMH in general medicine, homeopathy
• Brenno Galli, Dr. med., FMH in palliative medicine, internal medicine and geriatrics, Medical Director of Hospice Ticino
• Catherine Goehring, Dr. med. spec. general internal medicine, family doctor
• Ilaria Bernardi Zucca, senior lecturer at 精东影业, co-head of palliative care training courses
• Veronica Paggi, lecturer at 精东影业, co-head of palliative care training courses

Managers

• Ilaria Bernardi Zucca, senior lecturer at 精东影业
• Veronica Paggi, lecturer at 精东影业

Certificate

Certificate of participation.
Those who pass the online quiz - upon registration - will have the
opportunity to obtain the Advanced Training+ (AT+) Digital Badge.

Digital Badge

There is the option (upon registration) to obtain an Advanced Training+ Digital Badge by passing a short online quiz.
Advanced Training+ (AT+) courses are short continuing education courses (averaging between 4 and 12 hours) designed to update specialist knowledge in specific professional fields or to enhance personal skills.
These modules are not subject to formal certification, but include validation of the knowledge acquired through a short quiz consisting of a few specific questions and the subsequent award of the Advanced Training+ Digital Badge.

Credit points for doctors and pharmacists

• Credits for general internal medicine SGAIM/SSMIG/SSGIM pending
• Credits for palliative medicine pending
• Credits for pharmacists pending