Maine Hospice Council & Center for End-of-Life Care

18^th Annual Maine Pain Initiative Conference

“Pain Management in the Older Adult: Aging Doesn’t Need to Hurt”

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

October 19, 2012

Agenda

8:00A    - 9:00AM                                                                        Registration and Breakfast

9:15AM – 9:30AM                                                                        Welcome

9:30AM – 11:00AM                                                                        Carol Curtiss, MSN, RN - BC

11:15AM – 12:15PM                                                                        Breakout Sessions

1. Nurse Practitioner Panel: “Supporting the Continuum of Care”
2. “Challenges to  Quality of Life for Our Elders: Psycho-social Interventions”
3. Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy presentation: “Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Pain Management”
4. Nursing Assistant Panel: “The Bedrock of Support for Our Elders”

12:15PM – 1:15PM                                                                        Lunch

1:15PM – 2:15PM                  Steve D’Amato BSP, BCOP – “What’s New in the Symptom Management Toolbox?”

2:15PM – 2:30PM                                                                        Break

2:30PM – 3:30PM                                                                        Repeat Breakout Sessions

3:30PM – 3:45PM                                                                        Wrap-up and Evaluations