ABOUT US
Informing, raising awareness, and promoting the value of palliative care among the general public and healthcare professionals, while connecting patients and their loved ones with the palliative care network in Geneva is the mission that Palliative Geneva has set for itself.
ABOUT US
Informing, raising awareness, and promoting the value of palliative care among the general public and healthcare professionals, while connecting patients and their loved ones with the palliative care network in Geneva is the mission that Palliative Geneva has set for itself.
THE ASSOCIATION
PALLIATIVE GENEVA
Palliative Geneva is a non-profit organization recognized as serving the public interest. It is the Geneva section of palliative.ch, the Swiss Society for Palliative Medicine, Care and Support, and is supported by the State of Geneva.
Its mission is to promote access to palliative care through initiatives that raise awareness of palliative care and highlight the resources available within the Geneva palliative care network.
It is composed of healthcare professionals, spiritual caregivers, social workers, and volunteers from various sectors.
Founded in 1993 as the Geneva Association for Palliative Medicine and Care, AGMSP became Palliative Geneva on March 8, 2012.
THE MISSION OF
PALLIATIVE GENEVA
- To raise awareness of palliative care among the general public, professionals, and political authorities.
- To facilitate access to palliative care for all those in need, regardless of their place of residence or age, by promoting awareness of the resources available in the canton.
- To contribute to developing the cantonal palliative care strategy
- To promote exchanges between the various health professionals in the canton
- To foster synergies for training and research
Palliative Geneva Committee
Laurence Jelk Morales
President
Isabelle Jacquot-Pan
Vice-President
Vanessa Fraiberger
Treasurer
Muriel Delacquis
Member
Sandro Iseppi
Member
Kai-Nicholas Kunze
Member
Marie Müller
Member
François Polliart
Member
Palliative Geneva Team
Natacha Madaule
Director
Véronique Vincent Samson
Executive Assistant
Pascal Boegli
IT
PALLIATIVE GENEVA INFORMATIONS AND DOCUMENTS
The Statutes
Minutes of General Assemblies
PV-assemblee-generale-2024.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2023.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2022.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2021.pdf
Resultat-des-votations-AG-2021.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2020.pdf
Resultats-des-votations-AG-2020.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2019.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2018.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2017.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2016.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2015.pdf
PV-assemblee-generale-2014.pdf
Activity Reports
THE PALLIATIVE
GENEVA PRIZE
The Palliative Geneva Award recognizes the best work on the topic of palliative care among Bachelor students at the Haute École de Santé.
Palliative care deeply respects the dignity and autonomy of each individual.
Over the past decades, advances in medicine have led to an increase in the number of diseases that can be treated or even cured.
However, these advances have also led to an increase in progressive chronic illnesses, which present complex care situations. Thus, current treatment options have pushed beyond what was once considered the limits of medicine.
Moreover, the increasing specialization of care in ever more specific fields of medicine is accompanied by a fragmentation of treatment and perspectives on the person, raising concerns that this may overlook considerations of quality of life and the subjective suffering of the patient.
Palliative care, a discipline of comprehensive care, aims to support the quality of life of individuals suffering from a progressive incurable illness, regardless of its stage and throughout its course. However, it plays a predominant role during the end-of-life period, when the patient’s death is approaching.
They provide personalized care to patients and their loved ones by relieving symptoms, offering psychological, social, and spiritual support, and accompanying them through to the end of life.
Palliative care deeply respects the dignity and autonomy of each individual. Its practitioners, from various disciplines, are committed both to relieving symptoms (including the use of rehabilitation or life-sustaining measures when appropriate) and to supporting patients and their loved ones until death, with acceptance of the limits of medicine and the natural finitude of human life.
Being present throughout life and until its end is the demanding and rewarding challenge that palliative care teams face every day.