The workshop “Research in Ethics in Palliative Care Settings: Focus on ACP with Frail Patients” was facilitated by Simone Veronese, with the support of co-facilitator Minna Hokka. This interactive workshop presented examples of empirical ethics research projects used to support the implementation of Advance Care Planning (ACP) with frail people. Participants were introduced to specifically developed ACP tools and were invited to reflect on how these tools could be adapted to their own care settings, taking into account different clinical, cultural, and institutional contexts.
Working in small groups, participants engaged with real clinical cases in order to adapt ACP tools to realistic scenarios. Through this process, they gained practical experience in using these tools and explored how ACP can support ethically sensitive and patient-centred decision-making in palliative care. The session also aimed to strengthen participants’ ethical and clinical reasoning skills by encouraging them to consider patient vulnerability, communication, autonomy, shared decision-making, and the practical challenges of implementing ACP in everyday care.
