Palliative Care for Older Adults Training Course

Name: Advanced Palliative Care for Older Adults Training Course
Availability: InStock

Coordinate person-centered assessment, symptom support, shared decisions, family partnership, and transitions across older-adult services.

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Langkawi, Lagos, Amsterdam, Sharm El-Sheikh, Cape town, Cairo and more
Next session: 1 – 5 November 2026, Langkawi
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Advanced Palliative Care for Older Adults Training Course is a one-week course for palliative and geriatric care leaders, nurses, allied health and social care professionals, quality teams, care coordinators, and healthcare managers, who leave with an Older Adult Palliative Care Coordination Pack. The course integrates palliative needs assessment, symptom burden, frailty, cognition, function, communication, shared decision making, advance care planning, family caregiver support, ethics, interdisciplinary care, transitions, documentation, quality, and improvement. Agile Leaders Training Center presents palliative care for older adults as coordinated support for comfort, goals, dignity, and continuity.

Who Should Attend

Functions responsible for palliative and older-adult care planning
Teams responsible for nursing, allied health, and social care
Personnel responsible for symptom support and treatment review
Care coordinators responsible for transitions and continuity
Functions responsible for family and caregiver support
Quality leaders responsible for assurance and service improvement

The course assumes participants coordinate older-adult care, quality, communication, or support and leaves out prescribing qualification, hospice credentialing, clinical diagnosis, and general elderly-care operations.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and organizations that plan, coordinate, or improve palliative care for older adults.

Hospitals and ambulatory healthcare services
Primary care and community health organizations
Residential, nursing, and long-term care services
Home care and social support organizations
Palliative, geriatric, rehabilitation, and allied health teams
Quality, ethics, patient experience, and care coordination functions

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze palliative needs, symptoms, function, frailty, and context
Apply communication and shared decision-making methods
Build goals-of-care and advance care planning processes
Use family, caregiver, and interdisciplinary support structures
Evaluate transitions, treatment burden, documentation, and safety
Prioritize quality evidence and service improvements

Course Agenda

Day 1: Palliative Needs and Priorities

Palliative Need Identification and Referral Checklist
Physical, Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Assessment Map
Symptom Burden, Function, and Frailty Profile
Multimorbidity and Treatment Burden Review
Person Values, Priorities, and Dignity Record

Day 2: Communication and Care Decisions

Communication Preference and Capacity Assessment
Serious Illness Conversation Structure
Shared Decision-Making and Option Discussion Grid
Goals-of-Care Agreement and Review Template
Advance Care Planning Documentation Pathway

Day 3: Comfort and Family Support

Pain and Distressing Symptom Review Framework
Cognitive Impairment and Delirium Support Plan
Comfort, Function, and Daily Living Goal Matrix
Family Caregiver Needs and Readiness Assessment
Psychosocial, Cultural, and Spiritual Support Map

Day 4: Coordination, Transitions, and Quality

Interdisciplinary Roles and Named Lead Charter
Care Transition and Information Handover Checklist
Treatment Review and Medication Burden Record
Palliative Care Documentation and Quality Dashboard
Service Access, Continuity, and Improvement Tracker

Day 5: Older Adult Palliative Care Practice

Suggested Exercise: Needs and Symptom Assessment Review
Suggested Exercise: Goals and Shared Decision Conversation
Suggested Exercise: Family Support and Comfort Planning
Suggested Exercise: Transition and Quality Evidence Review
Capstone Exercise: Older Adult Palliative Care Coordination Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on fictional hospital, primary care, residential care, community, and home-care situations.

Suggested activity: combine palliative needs, symptoms, function, frailty, values, and family context in one assessment.
Suggested activity: structure a goals-of-care conversation and document preferences, capacity, options, and review points.
Suggested activity: build an interdisciplinary comfort and family-support plan with clear responsibilities.
Suggested activity: review a transition, treatment burden, documentation, dashboard, and improvement action set.

FAQs

Who suits advanced palliative care for older adults training, and what does it assume?

Palliative, geriatric, nursing, allied health, social care, coordination, quality, and management functions suit the training; it assumes responsibility for care or support and excludes prescribing authority and hospice credentialing.

How does palliative care for older adults differ from general elderly care training?

Palliative care for older adults concentrates on serious illness needs, symptom burden, goals, values, communication, advance care planning, family support, ethics, interdisciplinary coordination, transitions, and quality rather than broader older-adult service operations.

How are goals of care established in palliative care for older adults?

Goals are established by assessing the person's priorities, decision-making capacity, communication preferences, symptoms, function, treatment burden, cultural and spiritual context, available options, family involvement, and agreed points for review.

How should family caregivers be supported in older-adult palliative care?

Family caregivers should be identified with the person's agreement, assessed for information and support needs, included in decisions as appropriate, prepared for transitions and changing symptoms, linked with resources, and offered regular opportunities to review concerns.

Conclusion

Participants leave with an Older Adult Palliative Care Coordination Pack containing needs, symptom, function, frailty, communication, decision, goals, advance planning, family, transition, treatment review, dashboard, and improvement tools. The pack links personal priorities with coordinated action. It helps teams document choices, support caregivers, manage transitions, and review continuity and quality across care settings.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Rome	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Paris	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Porto	Week 35, 2027 30 August – 3 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Bangkok	Week 35, 2027 5 – 9 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Manama	Week 36, 2027 12 – 16 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Vienna	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tbilisi	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 1 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Muscat	Week 39, 2027 3 – 7 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Bali	Week 40, 2027 10 – 14 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Trabzon	Week 42, 2027 24 – 28 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,800
Casablanca	Week 43, 2027 25 – 29 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Milan	Week 44, 2027 1 – 5 November 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 44, 2027 1 – 5 November 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAdvanced Palliative Care for Older Adults Training Course is a one-week course for palliative and geriatric care leaders, nurses, allied health and social care professionals, quality teams, care coordinators, and healthcare managers, who leave with an Older Adult Palliative Care Coordination Pack. The course integrates palliative needs assessment,…

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Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

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Palliative Care for Older Adults Training Course