ABOUT US
Palliative genève’s mission is to inform, raise awareness, and support both the general public and professionals while connecting patients and their loved ones with the palliative care network in Geneva.
ABOUT US
Palliative genève’s mission is to inform, raise awareness, and support both the general public and professionals while connecting patients and their loved ones with the palliative care network in Geneva.
THE ASSOCIATION
PALLIATIVE GENÈVE
Palliative genève is a non-profit association officially recognised as serving the public interest and the Geneva branch of palliative.ch. The Swiss Society for Palliative Medicine and Care. It is supported by the State of Geneva.
Its mission is to facilitate access to palliative care through the promotion of palliative care services and the resources of the Geneva palliative care network.
Its members include healthcare providers, spiritual support personnel, social workers, and volunteers from a range of fields.
Originally established in 1993 as the Geneva Association for Palliative Medicine and Care (AGMSP), the organization was renamed Palliative genève on March 8, 2012.
THE MISSION OF
PALLIATIVE GENÈVE
- Raising awareness of palliative care among the general public, professionals, and political authorities
- Facilitating equitable access to palliative care for everyone in need, regardless of their age or living situation, by promoting awareness of the resources available in the canton.
- Contributing to the development of the cantonal palliative care strategy
- Facilitating exchanges and collaboration between healthcare professionals throughout the canton
- Promoting synergies in training and research
Palliative Genève 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 Genève Team
Natacha Madaule
Director
Véronique Vincent Samson
Executive Assistant
Pascal Boegli
IT
PALLIATIVE GENÈVE 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
GENÈVE PRIZE
The palliative genève 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.
Nevertheless, these medical advancements have also resulted in a rise in progressive chronic illnesses, creating complex care situations. As a result, current treatment options have extended beyond what was previously regarded as the boundaries of medicine.
Moreover, the growing specialization of medical care into increasingly narrow fields has led to fragmented care and a fragmented view of the patient, which may risk overlooking considerations of quality of life and the patient’s subjective experience of suffering.
Palliative care, as a holistic care discipline, seeks to uphold the quality of life for individuals with progressive incurable diseases, at any stage and throughout the disease trajectory. Its primary focus, however, lies in the end-of-life phase, when the patient’s death is anticipated.
They offer personalized care to patients and their families by managing symptoms, providing psychological, social, and spiritual support, and accompanying them until the end of life.
Palliative care upholds profound respect for the dignity and autonomy of every person. Its multidisciplinary practitioners are dedicated not only to symptom relief (without excluding rehabilitation or life-sustaining interventions) but also to accompanying patients and their families through to death, acknowledging the limits of medicine and the natural finitude of human existence.
To be present throughout life and up to its end, this is the demanding and fulfilling challenge that palliative care teams meet daily.