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ACP-i 2025 Conference
9th Advance Care Planning International Conference – September 2025
Advance Care Planning Australia is excited to welcome you to Yugambeh Country on the Gold Coast Australia – 24-26th September 2025!
Advance care planning is a crucial starting point in the journey towards person and family-centred care. The conference theme ‘Are we there yet?’ aims to embrace these journeys by interweaving advance care planning best practices and research through cultural, personal, organisational, system, and societal lenses.
Visit www.acp-i2025.org
“What is in your advance care planning pill?” webinars
In 2024 we will continue our successful series of “whats in the ACP pill” webinars as one-hour Zoom webinars to provide the advance care planning community with opportunities to share the details of how advance care planning is constructed, implemented and evaluated in different jurisdictions. These sessions will start with a presentation by one country/territory where they share what’s in the advance care planning pill in their area – how they structure advance care planning services, how they engage consumers and communities, how they prepare the workforce, how ACPlans are recorded, shared and used, systems and processes, legislation and the legal framework they operate under, how advance care planning is resourced, and how they measure and evaluate their services and approaches. They will also be asked to demonstrate the impact of their advance care planning service on consumers through a consumer story.
We will then have a break out session facilitated by the Board members to discuss the presentation.
The webinar is open to ACPI members and non members , all video recordings are available after the webinar on the internal membership website
Next are the colleagues from Norway:
What’s in the ACP-pill in Norway?
Special issue: Advance Care Planning around the World: Evidence and Experiences, Programs and Perspectives
For the ACP World Congress in Singapore, the board of the international ACP society has worked with the local organizers to produce a
journal focusing on the topic
“Advance Care Planning around the World: Evidence and Experiences, Programs and Perspectives”.
Tanja Krones, Raymond Ng (Ed.) with the publishers of the Journal of Evidence Education and Quality in Health Care (ZEFQ – Elsevier Publishing Group).
The texts are in English, with a German translation of the abstract.
You can currently access the journal for free at the following link:
https://www.zefq-journal.com/issue/S1865-9217(23)X0006-3
New board elected
We are happy to introduce the new board elected on 24th of June:
President: Tanja Krones (Switzerland) | |
Vice President: Craig Sinclair (Australia) | |
Secretary: Cari Borenko (Canada) | |
Treasurer: Kornelia Götze (Germany) | |
Additional Board Member: Erik Fromme (USA) | |
Additional Board Member: Cristina Lasmarias Martinez (Spain) | |
Additional Board Member: Cheng-Pei Lin (Taiwan) |
ACP-i 2023 Conference
We are proud to announce the key dates for the upcoming Singapore conference.
Particularly, we would like to emphasize the deadline for abstract submissions and are looking forward to your contributions.
Call for Abstract Opens : 29 Aug 2023
Abstract Submission Closes : 4 Jan 2023
Notification of Abstract Acceptance : 6 Feb 2023
Presenting Author Confirmation Deadline : 15 Feb 2023
Presenting Author Registration Deadline : 28 Feb 2023
Please visit the conference website for more information: www.acp-i2023.org
Video recordings of first ACP-i Digital Exchange now online
The video recordings of our first digital exchange from last August are finally online and can be found here: All Videos from ACP-I Digital Exchange 2021
Have fun with watching and recapping.
Summary of ACP-I member newsletter November 2021
It continues to be a challenging time for the health sector and more specifically advance care planning. We hope you are managing to keep yourselves and your loved ones safe and well.
At our general assembly meeting in August we undertook to provide you with more regular news and more opportunities for us to connect as a Society. We hope this newsletter provides you with useful information, news and the details about 2022 planned Society events.
Welcome and congratulations to our new board
We wanted to share a little about our new board members who have already met twice since the digital exchange.
Board President – Tanja Krones Prof Dr med. Dipl. Soz. Head of the Clinical Ethics Unit at the University Hospital Zurich, associated with the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich
Board Vice President
Dr. Stephanie Anderson, DNP, RN
Executive Director, Respecting Choices, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
Board Secretary
Leigh Manson, B.Proc, LLB, MBA
ADVANCE CARE PLANNING National Programme Lead – Health Quality & Safety Commission, New Zealand
Board Treasurer
Kornelia Hoppi Goetze
Family Practitioner, palliative care specialist and research fellow at the dpt of General Practice, University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Germany
Board Member At Large
Dr. Jessica Simon, MB ChB, MRCP(UK), FRCPC
Professor and Division head for Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology at the University of Calgary, Canada
Board Member At Large
Cari Borenko, BA, BSW, RSW, MHS
Lead, Advance Care Planning, Fraser Health Authority, British Columbia; Serious Illness Program, Master Coach; Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia; National Task Group Member and Chair National Advance Care Planning Community of Practice, Advance Care Planning Canada
Board Member At Large
Dr. Cheng-Pei Lin RN, MSc, PhD
Assistant professor in Nursing at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Taipei, Taiwan; Visiting Research Fellow in Palliative Care at Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, UK
Advisor to the Board
Dr. Ingmar Hornke, DEAA
CEO and CMD of Palliative Team Frankfurt gGmbH (NPO Specialist Palliative Home Care Service for the metropolitan area of Frankfurt and Specialist Pediatric Home Care Service for the County of southern Hesse) and CEO of Würdezentrum gUG including Palliative-Hospice Academy Frankfurt and Center of Caring Community
Advisor to the Board
Dr. Daniel Neves Forte, MD, PhD
Head – Palliative Care Program, Hospital Sírio-Libanes (Brazil); ICU Senior physician – ICHC, University of São Paulo; President – Bioethics Committee, Hospital Sírio-Libanês, Past president – Brazilian Academy of Palliative Care
Advisor to the Board
Dr. Craig Sinclair PhD, BA, BSc
Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Advisor to the Board
Cristina Lasmarias
Lead, Advance Care Planning Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology
2021 Digital Exchange
Thank you to those of you that were able to attend our first virtual exchange. It was a great success and has inspired the Board to consider more virtual events.
We asked attendees to provide us with feedback after the digital exchange and this is what you have said:
- Participants liked the exchange of “resources and real experience with advance care planning” and “the chance to reconnect with international colleagues in advance care planning, during a time when it has been difficult to travel and stay connected. Hearing about the excellent work that is going on in different parts of the world in this field” and 100% found the conference valuable.
- Suggestions for improvement included “while I really enjoyed the length of the presentations there were too many in my opinion. Fewer presentations or more breaks could help,” a desire for rapid access to the presentations on-line and easier event registration. There was also a call for more “perspective of community members and people with lived experience of illness: as presenters, attendees and on the conference organising committee”.
- Ideas suggested for future events included more on ethical and legal dimensions of advance care planning, decision-making and culture, research findings on the effectiveness and impact of advance care planning during the pandemic, community based advance care planning and consensus building on definitions of advance care planning and “Goals of care”.
- Both digital and in-person conference events were deemed important. Please keep your suggestions for future events coming to office@acp-i.org.
Member only expert Q&As
We want to run three “member only” ask the expert sessions. We are thinking these would be 45 minutes long Zoom sessions. We would invite an expert to talk about a member requested topic and invite all members to join the Zoom conversation with the expert. We will set the dates for these once we have your topic requests.
Please send us your topic requests or key questions you would like us to gather an expert/s to answer for you to office@acp-i.org by 23 December 2021.
“What is in your advance care planning pill?” webinars
We will be running a number of one-hour Zoom webinars to provide the advance care planning community with opportunities to share the details of how advance care planning is constructed, implemented and evaluated in different jurisdictions.
These sessions will start with a presentation by one country/territory where they share what’s in the advance care planning pill in their area – how they structure advance care planning services, how they engage consumers and communities, how they prepare the workforce, how ACPlans are recorded, shared and used, systems and processes, legislation and the legal framework they operate under, how advance care planning is resourced, and how they measure and evaluate their services and approaches. They will also be asked to demonstrate the impact of their advance care planning service on consumers through a consumer story.
We will then have a break out session facilitated by the Board members to discuss the presentation.
We will ensure we run these webinars and different times across the year to support everyone across the globe to attend at least one live.
What is right about advance care planning?
In October, JAMA published an opinion piece titled “What is wrong with ACP?” (Morrison RS, Meier DE, Arnold RM. What’s Wrong With Advance Care Planning? JAMA. 2021;326(16):1575–1576. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.16430 )
The Board has prepared a response to this opinion piece which has been accepted for publication (see commentary section of the JAMA viewpoint).
In addition, we wanted to bring a couple of other key papers to your attention:
- Sinclair, C., Nolte, L., White, B.P. and M. Detering, K. (2020), Advance care planning in Australia during the COVID-19 outbreak: now more important than ever. Intern Med J, 50: 918-923. https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.14937
- Montgomery et al’s Response to Morrison: Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0272 ). Carole Montgomery, Susan E. Hickman, Christine Wilkins, Erik K. Fromme, and Stephanie Anderson. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2021 24:1, 12-13
- Advance Care Planning is So Right: Podcast with Rebecca Sudore and Ryan McMahan https://www.geripal.org/2020/10/advance-care-planning-is-so-right.html
- Moody, S.Y. (2021), “Advance” Care Planning Reenvisioned. J Am Geriatr Soc, 69: 330-332. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16903 and commentary on this:
- Bradshaw, A., Bayly, J., Penfold, C., Lin, C.-P., Oluyase, A.O., Hocaoglu, M.B., Murtagh, F.E.M. and Koffman, J. (2021), Comment on: “Advance” care planning reenvisioned. J Am Geriatr Soc, 69: 1177-1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17058
- Moody, S.Y. (2021), Reply to: Comment on: “Advance” care planning reenvisioned. J Am Geriatr Soc, 69: 1179-1180. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17059
- Advance Care Planning: Challenges and Opportunities webinars 2020
- Deconstructing the Complexities of Advance Care Planning Outcomes: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Scoping Review. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16801
We look forward to a connected 2022 for the Society.
Yours, ACP-I Board.
First around the world digital exchange, August 2021
We are excited to announce this upcoming event, organised by Advance Care Planning International. We aim to engage people from around the world with impactful topics, dynamic speakers and great opportunities for networking:
Our first international ACP-I digital conference, 23rd/24th – 25th August 2021
We hope you will join us for two half days (4 hours each day) of a rich programme that will spotlight global efforts to push ACP upstream by activating communities and having ACP conversations before crises arise. You will hear about grassroots initiatives in community engagement, national campaigns to spark conversations, how ACP has impacted preparedness for crises as well as how ACP has supported different health systems during the pandemic. There will be many opportunities for lively conversations, we hope to connect you with new ideas, renewed energy and new people!
Registration is open
On the website you will find more information on conference speakers, when events will take place your time zone and you can register for the event:
All sessions will be recorded and available to registrants post conference.
ACP-i membership will entitle you to a conference fee discount. Remember to renew your membership. If you are not already a member, you can join now:
We look forward to meeting you at this exciting global online event in August 2021!
Singapore Conference postponed to 2023
Due to the Corona virus pandemic, the 8th Conference of the International Society of Advance Care Planning in Singapore (originally scheduled for April 2021) has been postponed to May 2023 .
As soon as new information is available, we will post it here.
Our conference in Rotterdam was a big success!
More than 300 international guests attended, great presentations were held. We would like to thank all of our visitors for attending the conference and all of the organizers and presenters for their great work and efforts.
Also a great “Thank you” to Sara Davison (Canada) who will no longer serve as a committee member. Welcome aboard! We say “Hello” to Doris Barwich who has just joined the ACP-i committee to represent the Canadian community. The new committee has been elected by the general member assembly.
The committee now consists of (from left to right in image below) Stephanie Anderson (US, re-elected Vice President), Doris Barwich (from Canada, committee member), Tanja Krones (Switzerland, re-elected President), Raymond Ng (Singapore, committee member), Karen Detering (Australia, re-elected secretary), Leigh Manson (New Zealand, committee member) and Jürgen In der Schmitten (Germany, re-electes treasurer).
We hope to see a lot of you in Singapore in April 2021.
Join ACP-i as a member
You are invited you to become an Advance Care Planning international (ACP-i) member now. Details on benefits, fee and how to join:
7th Conference of the International Society of Advance Care Planning
13th – 16th March 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands was a big success. More than 300 international attendees, great presentations, lots of interaction. Find more details on the congress website
After the conference is before the conference. See you in Singapore April 2021, upcoming information asap on this page!
Welcome to The International Society of Advance Care Planning …
… and our new look website. The inspiration for the foundation of a new society dedicated to high quality advance care planning came from a meeting of like-minded individuals whose passion is to improve patient-centered care, led them to come together at the inaugural 2010 international conference held in Melbourne and then to reaffirm their commitment to advance care planning at subsequent conferences held in London, Chicago, Munich, back in Melbourne in 2013 and in Banff, Canada in 2017.
Now with over 1000 members from a multitude of countries the society is looking forward to its next conference.