The Taiwan Occupational Therapy Association will host the 1st Asia-Pacific Occupational Therapy Symposium (APOTS 2017) at the Chang Gung University in Taoyuan from October 20th to 22nd in 2017. For more information please visit the official symposium website:
Anne Lawson-Porter contributed to the current issue of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, with an interesting article about the first joint COTEC – ENOTHE Congress, in Galway, June 2016. If you have a WFOT individual membership you can retrieve the article via:
http://www.wfot.org/Bulletin.aspx
If you have full access to Taylor & Francis through your institution you can find the article here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14473828.2016.1219150
World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, 72(2), p. 70 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14473828.2016.1219150
The European Forum for Primary Care invites to a webinar:
Peter Groenewegen executive board member of EFPC and professor at the Netherlands Inst Health Service Research (NIVEL), will present a webinar, titled Primary Care Models for Tackling Multimorbidity. In this webinar Peter will address the problem of fragmentation of health care. He will present information on programmes in EU countries to integrate care for patients with multiple chronic diseases, based on information collected in an European study – the ICARE4EU study. The potential for improvement according to patients in the important areas of continuity, comprehensiveness and patient involvement will be presented on the basis of the QUALICOPC study. Finally, Peter will touch upon the issue of the transferability of practices from one country to another.
Webinar 17 November 2016, 12.30 p.m. (Amsterdam time); Maximum 100 participants!
For registration,please send an e-mail to info@euprimarycare.org
Happy WORLD OT DAY 2017. To strengthen the European occupational therapy community, COTEC has opened a Facebook on the 27th of October today. On this social media platform COTEC will actively promote topics relevant to occupational therapy and facilitate communication among stakeholders and members of the occupational therapy profession. Visit our page and give us a like to stay informed about OT in Europe:
ICIC17- in Dublin
The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care. They will share experience and the latest evidence about integrating Public Health, Health and Social Care and the New roles and Possibilities for Hospitals, producing Positive and Curative Integrated Mental and Physical Care, mobilising key enablers like policy making and Mobile and Digital Health Solutions, and investment in an Integrated Care Workforce, clinical leadership and coproduction with individuals, careers, communities and populations.
Abstracts can be submitted until december 2nd 2016:
https://www.conftool.net/ICIC17/
For more information visit the ICIC17 website:
The October Newsletter 2016 is now available. It can be retreived here or in our newsletter section.
