Long-Term Care Days

Every year with pleasure we invite you to participate in Toruń Long-term Care Days – the event assembling great number of professionals interested in developing long-term care in Poland and other European countries.

In 2008 Long-term Care Days will take place on 23th-25th September. Main topic of Conference will be “Quality of care – quality of life. Long-term care in the light of economic, legal and ethical issues”

Program TDOD 2008

XI International Long-Term Care Conference
Quality of care – quality of life.
Long-term care in the light of economic, legal and ethical issues
Aula of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 11, Toruń
23-25 September 2008

23 September 2008
19.30 – 20.15 inauguration
• Society towards dependant persons – Prof. P. Błędowski, PhD
20.15 – 21.15 entertainment – „Grupa MoCarta” concert
21.15 – 22.30 banquet

24 September 2008 
9.30 – 11.00 1st session
Between ethics and economy – most important aspects of long-term care
Chairman: Prof. Piotr Błędowski, PhD

• Barbara Czerska, PhD – What can we learn from the suffering?
• Prof. Barbara Bień, MD – Geriatric care – benefits and costs
• Prof. Gerhard Naegele, PhD - Pflege in Deutschland – Stand und Herausforderungen (Care in Germany – current state and expectations)
• Prof. Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk, PhD – Quality of life of long-term care patients

11.00 – 11.30 Break

11.30 – 13.00 2nd session
Quality dimensions in long-term care
Chairperson: Prof. Barbara Bień, MD

• Prof. Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, MD – Quality of medical services in long-term care
• Helmut Wallrafen-Dreisow - Betriebswirtschaftliche Aspekte der Pflege (Economic aspects of nursing)
• Piotr Błędowski, Paweł Kubicki – Economic aspects of long–tem care facilities operation
• Prof. Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska, MD – The influence of judicature in the scope of disability and dependency on tasks of long-term care

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 3rd session
Management and staff in long-term care facilities
Chairperson: Prof. Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, PhD
• Elżbieta Szwałkiewicz, MA – Dilemmas of long-term care from the perspective of the facility
• Łukasz Jurek, MA – Dilemmas and paradoxes in long-term care from the perspective of an economist
• Jolanta Czerniak, MA – Dilemmas of team management in nursing practice

16.00 – 16.30 Lunch break

16.30 – 18.00 4th session
Rehabilitation and its influence on costs of long-term care
Chairmen: Prof. Jerzy E. Kiwerski, MD; Prof. Aleksander Kabsch, PhD
• Prof. Jerzy E. Kiwerski, MD – The influence of rehabilitation on costs of long-term care
• Prof. Aleksander Kabsch, PhD
• Marek Żak, PhD
19.30 Open air dinner in the scope a integration evening

25 September 2008
10.00 – 12.30 5th session
Rights of nursed persons
Chairpersons: Elżbieta Szwałkiewicz, Grażyna Śmiarowska
• Barbara Wardowska,  Marta Szetela Jasińska,  Grażyna Śmiarowska – Significance of cerebral structures therapy of long-term care patients
• Janina Mirończuk – Rights of the patient in the light of right to privacy and intimacy

12.30 – 13.00 Conference summary
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

We invite you to acquaint with the article involved history Long-term Care Conference and accompanying events organized by Toruńskie Zakłady Materiałów Opatrunkowych SA (Toruń Dressing Materials Works) and Association of Long-term Care and Social Aid „Home under Sun”.

History

Tradition of meetings, which focus professionals, whom act in aid of chronically ill, disabled and elderly people arose in 1998, during situation when in Poland started developing new field of healthcare – long-term care and began function first institutions, which serve specialist care for this group of patients. Vital problem, beside obvious financial deficit, were lack of competent personnel, which could serve professional aid – mainly nurses and also lack of any Polish standards. At that time existed three main needs: urgency of education in this field of medicine, need to create experience exchange platform and finally necessity to start discussion about the shape of long-term care in future. To face this particular problems Toruńskie Zakłady Materiałów Opatrunkowych SA (Toruń Dressing Materials Works) came out with initiative of organizing cyclical Conference of Long-term Care, which would focus leaders of this discipline – both people working in favour of the disabled (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers) and representatives of central and lokal administration.

Toruń professional’s meetings are becoming increasingly popular year by year. The first Conference organized in 1998 was attended by over 100 people. On this meeting also turned out that discussed topics were interesting not only for Polish professionals. Since 1999 Conference have got status of international conference. Till now we have been hostessing representatives all most from all European countries.

High standards of Conference affirms permanent cooperation with Polish and foreign leaders and creators of long-term care, assistance of domestic consultants and bodies of opinion operating in this sector.