ABOUT US
Informing, promoting, raising awareness among the general public and professionals, connecting sick people and their loved ones with the Geneva palliative care network – this is the mission that palliative geneva has set for itself.
ABOUT US
Informing, promoting, raising awareness among the general public and professionals, connecting sick people and their loved ones with the Geneva palliative care network – this is the mission that palliative geneva has set for itself.
THE ASSOCIATION
PALLIATIVE GENEVA
Palliative geneva is a non-profit association recognized as serving the public interest, the Geneva section of palliative.ch – Swiss Society for Palliative Medicine and Care, supported by the State of Geneva.
Its mission aims to promote access to palliative care through actions promoting palliative care and the resources of the Geneva palliative care network.
It is composed of health professionals, spiritual caregivers, social workers, and volunteers from various sectors.
Founded in 1993 under the name Geneva Association of Palliative Medicine and Care, AGMSP became palliative geneva on March 8, 2012.
THE MISSION OF
PALLIATIVE GENEVA
- To better promote palliative care among the general public, professionals, and political authorities
- To facilitate access to palliative care for all people who need it, regardless of their place of residence and age, by making known the existing resources 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 INFORMATION 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 Prize rewards the best work on the theme of palliative care among Bachelor’s students at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland
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 a resurgence of chronic progressive diseases that constitute complex care situations. Thus, current treatment possibilities have pushed back what was once considered the limits of medicine.
Moreover, the increasing specialization of care provided in increasingly specific areas of medicine is accompanied by a fragmentation of care and the perspective on the individual, which may raise concerns about overlooking the reflection on quality of life and subjective suffering of a patient.
Palliative care, a discipline of comprehensive care, aims to support the quality of life of people suffering from an incurable progressive disease, regardless of its stage and throughout its evolution; however, it finds its predominant place in the end-of-life period, when the patient’s impending death becomes foreseeable.
They offer individualized support to sick people and their loved ones, by alleviating symptoms, offering psychological, social and spiritual support, and accompanying them until the end of life.
Palliative care deeply respects the dignity and autonomy of each person. Its practitioners, from various disciplines, are committed to both relieving symptoms (without excluding the use of rehabilitation or life-saving measures) and accompanying sick people and their loved ones until death (accepting the limits of medicine and the natural finitude of human life).
Being present in life and until the end of life, such is the demanding, exciting challenge that palliative care teams take on daily.