Education and Learning Opportunities
We know that it can be challenging to plan months in advance for learning, or that work patterns may change at short notice.
On this page we highlight learning opportunities that have spaces in the coming weeks.
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Late availability education available at this point:
WEBINAR:
‘Evidence-Based Pain Management‘
Global Observatory of Long-Term care (GOLTC) Pain in Care homes Interest Group webinar
Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 11.00 to 12.00 GMT, you can check your local time here
Link: Register to join on Zoom
Pain is a common care problem among nursing homes residents. Even though pharmacological interventions often have limited therapeutic effect and compromises activities of daily living, and may even cause adverse, potentially fatal, side effects for residents, non-pharmacological interventions for pain management in nursing homes are seldom used. One explanation might be, that the non-pharmacological interventions may not be developed with the target groups and therefore not practical, feasible, or e.g., even not accepted by the residents. Therefore, in this webinar the joint development of a practical and feasible toolkit for implementing non-pharmacological pain management interventions in nursing homes is presented
The webinar will cover:
- Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
- Introduction to the GOLTC Interest Group (Manuela Hoedl, Medical University of Graz and Sandra Zwakhalen, Maastricht University)
- A practical toolkit with non-pharmacological interventions for pain management in nursing homes (Manuela Hoedl, Medical University of Graz)
- Q & A: Ideas/ further plans for improving pain management?
- Discussion about the Interest Group next steps led by the steering group members’
