Dec 7, 2022
We are pleased to confirm speakers for the plenary sessions for our first face to face Life After Stroke Forum on Friday 10 March 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
Programme overview
The European Life After Stroke Forum will cover the latest evidence and research in life after stroke.
The programme will build our collective knowledge in life after stroke, stimulate debate and improve the quality of life after stroke for people living with stroke in Europe.
Plenary 1
This session will highlight the importance of our focus on life after stroke. The findings of a key European report on life after stroke and plans for implementation will be presented and a project focusing on providing good life after stroke care and support will be showcased.
Speakers confirmed:
- A life saved is a life worth living, Professor Charles Wolfe, King’s College London, UK
- Life after stroke services (ABRIC) in Catalonia, Mercè Ayesta, Fundació Ictus Coordinator and Gloria Bou, stroke survivor, Spain.
Book your place by 31 December 2022 for an early bird rate at http://bit.ly/3UDIuli
Plenary 2
This session will present some of the challenges and solutions around secondary prevention after stroke. It will present up to date knowledge around medicines, nutrition and gadgets.
Speakers confirmed:
- Medical secondary prevention post stroke, Professor Ronan Collins, Tallaght University Hospital and Peamount Hospitals Dublin, Ireland
- Nutrition post stroke, Dr Jo Kwan, Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College London, England
- Evidence behind wearable technology post stroke, Dr Liam Healy, Cork University Hospital, Ireland
Book your place by 31 December 2022 for early bird rates http://bit.ly/3UDIuli
‘There are few opportunities regarding conferences, workshops, and shared networking events for advocates and researchers in the life after stroke area of care. Also, there is limited evidence and research data in longer term management and care and stroke survivors often feel abandoned after rehabilitation stops. This conference with stimulate debate and ultimately improve life after stroke.’ Avril Drummond, Chair, European Life After Stroke Forum
Parallel sessions
In addition, we will hold parallel sessions which include the following topics – driving, mental health, sex and intimacy, empowering stroke survivors and good stroke care. The parallels will be presented in different formats; a debate, fishbowl format, workshops and lectures. We will also showcase the highest scoring abstracts.
For more information visit www.elasf.org
Nov 1, 2022
The European Life After Stroke Forum Series event on Wednesday 9 November has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with three European CME credits (ECMEC®s).
With only a week to go, it is not too late to book your free place for this online event.
The event runs from 10.00 to 15.00 CET, covering sessions on getting back to work, fatigue and physical activity after stroke.
Programme topics cover getting back to #work, #fatigue and #physicalexercise #stroke
Join us – sign up here https://bit.ly/3BSVPQc
Oct 25, 2022
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our first face-to-face conference on Life After Stroke on 10 March 2023 in Barcelona.
The European Life After Stroke Forum was created to bring together researchers, scientists, medical professionals, health policymakers, advocacy, or support groups, stroke survivors and their carers to share knowledge and network.
Due to COVID-19, our original planned conference had to be postponed. In its place we held a series of successful Life After Stroke Series of webinars in 2021 / 2022 to maintain moment and interest in this very important area of life after stroke.
‘There are few opportunities regarding conferences, workshops, and shared networking events for advocates and researchers in the life after stroke area of care. Also, there is limited evidence and research data in longer term management and care and stroke survivors often feel abandoned after rehabilitation stops. This conference with stimulate debate and ultimately improve life after stroke.’
Avril Drummond, Chair, European Life After Stroke Forum
How to register, more details about the programme and how to submit abstracts will be available from 10 November.
Sign up to our enewsletter and find out more about the European Life After Stroke Forum at www.elasf.org
Feedback from our Life After Stroke Series 2021/ 2022 online events
‘Thank you @StrokeEurope for organising such a great event. A morning of interesting insights into stroke care and the additional challenges caused by Covid. A particular highlight was the incredibly inspirational talk from Alexia about her lived experience.’
‘Thank you to all the speakers – such a valuable webinar. Really useful for my work with people living with stroke.’
‘These webinars are really useful and informative for everyone from stroke expert to stroke survivor, family or caregiver, and even after this webinar ends, it will be a good online content for sharing.’
‘Congrats to SAFE TEAM for organising this excellent webinar.’
‘Thank you for the excellent presentations including stroke survivor’s stories/experiences. I will definitely be aiming to embed some of these thoughts into my practise to empower my patients to be equipped for self-management of their condition in order to give them quality of life as stroke survivors.’
‘Thank you so much for such an interesting presentation – it was particularly interesting to hear from ‘expert witnesses’ and real-life experience of challenges and coping strategies.’
Jun 7, 2022
We had a successful face-to-face presence at the European Stroke Organisation Conference 2022 – the first since the start of the pandemic.
Some of the highlights include:
- A Stroke Action Plan for Europe (SAP-E) workshop where Arlene Wilkie, presented alongside Hanne Christensen (Denmark) and Bo Norving (Sweden). Romania shared their experiences of improving stroke care and Ukraine, Portugal, Italy and Armenia shared their successes to date.
- SAFE President, Harriet Proios, as well as presenting SAP-E awards to Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy, Germany, Greece and Serbia, for their work in promoting SAP-E, spoke of the importance of SAP-E in improving stroke care for stroke survivors.
- Harriet gave a moving presentation on the FAST Heroes initiative, Saving the World One Grandparent at a Time, demonstrating the impact successful educational and prevention campaigns can have.
- Rubina Ahmed, SAFE Board member from the Stroke Association, UK, took part in a panel interview on the patient perspective and how to involve stroke survivors in research.
Mar 7, 2022
We are delighted that stroke survivors are taking the stage at our Life After Stroke event this Friday, 11 March 2022.
Stroke survivors Mina Michalatou, Greece, Jürg Schwyter, Switzerland, Scott Ballard-Ridley, England, and Alexia Kountouri, Cyprus, will share their experiences of overcoming communication barriers after stroke.
Find out more information about the full programme and book your free place.
The European Life After Stroke Forum Series event has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®).
