The Geneva Palliative Care Network
Palliative care is fundamentally based on interprofessionality.
Providing the best possible comfort to a person suffering from an incurable illness, and supporting them and their loved ones throughout the palliative care journey, requires the involvement of multiple, sometimes unexpected, areas of expertise.
And this is where the Geneva palliative care network plays a crucial role. Palliative genève provides you with access to all forms of assistance, support and care, whether psychological, medical, social or spiritual, available and listed throughout the canton of Geneva.
The Geneva Palliative Care Network
Palliative care is fundamentally based on interprofessionality.
Providing the best possible comfort to a person suffering from an incurable illness, and supporting them and their loved ones throughout the palliative care journey, requires the involvement of multiple, sometimes unexpected, areas of expertise.
And this is where the Geneva palliative care network plays a crucial role. Palliative Geneva provides you with access to all forms of assistance, support and care, whether psychological, medical, social or spiritual, available and listed throughout the canton of Geneva..
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- FIND SUPPORT
- HOME CARE
- IN NURSING HOMES
- AT THE HOSPITAL
- IN PALLIATIVE CARE HOMES
- FINDING EQUIPMENT
- IN NEIGHBORING FRANCE
SOCIAL AIDS AND SERVICES
Accessing palliative care also means being able to rely on a social support network in times of difficulty.
The following services are available to support you in this type of process:
- Support with administrative procedures
- Financial problems
- Change of living environment
- Admission to nursing homes
- Family issues
Bureau d’information sociale (BIS)
Help for people in difficult financial, social or psychological situations
DÔME SENIOR
Help and support for people of retirement age in Switzerland
Pro Infirmis Genève
For people facing physical or mental disabilities
Pro Mente Sana
For people with mental illnesses and their loved ones
ASSOCIATIONS AND
VOLUNTEERS
You can contact the following associations that offer support in palliative situations.
Alzheimer Genève
Support for affected individuals and their loved ones
Association Doulas
de fin de vie
Support for the dying and their families before, during and after death
Association Maria-Cristina
Home-based support and well-being
Cancer Support Switzerland
Support groups and activities in English
Support phone number: 022 723 22 31
Support email: support@cancersupport.ch
General inquiries email: info@cancersupport.ch
Centre Otium
Therapies and workshops for people affected by cancer and their loved ones
Rive Gauche:
Rive Droite:
Croix rouge genevoise
Support for vulnerable people
https://www.croix-rouge-ge.ch/activites/populations-vulnerables
Roman Catholic Church
Relational volunteering at home
Contact: Sandro Iseppi, 079 542 80 05
HEALING JOY
Artistic, creative, and physical activities for cases of severe and/or chronic illness.
Ligue Pulmonaire genevoise
Support group for patients with respiratory insufficiency
Protestant Church
Relational volunteering at home
Contact: Jérémy Dunon, 022 372 65 89
Ligue genevoise
contre le cancer
Various types of workshops and support
Geneva Caregiver Support
Support for caregivers
https://www.ge.ch/dossier/ge-suis-proche-aidant
Support for
Children
As’trame Geneva
Support for children and adolescents experiencing bereavement
AVAC – APPRENDRE À VIVRE AVEC LE CANCER
Psychological and emotional support
Cancer Support Switzerland
Support groups and activities in English for children and adolescents
Support phone number: 022 723 22 31
Support email: support@cancersupport.ch
General inquiries email: info@cancersupport.ch
CAS – Centre d’Appui Scolaire
Academic support for sick children and children of sick parents
022 331 08 08
(9:00 AM-12:00 PM Monday to Friday)
Centre Otium
Therapies and workshops for people affected by cancer and their loved ones
Rive Gauche:
Rive Droite:
Resiliam
Psychological support for children and young people when a loved one is facing a serious illness, disability or death
Spiritual Support
The spiritual sphere encompasses and transcends the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual whole, thus the human being in its entirety.
Faced with the challenges of illness, we confront our fragility, our fears, death, and many questions. Spiritual support helps to give meaning and maintain hope and motivation. Feeling that one exists and being listened to is an invaluable aid and source of comfort. Here we inform you of some resources in this area.
Bereavement
Support
For adults and children who are experiencing the loss of a loved one, associations can support you. Don’t hesitate to contact them.
AS’TRAME GENEVA
Offers individual bereavement support
Cancer Support Switzerland
Support groups and activities in English
Support phone number: 022 723 22 31
Support email: support@cancersupport.ch
General inquiries email: info@cancersupport.ch
Centre Otium
Therapies and workshops for people affected by cancer and their loved ones
Rive Gauche:
Rive Droite:
HUG CÉRÉMONIE DU SOUVENIR
Takes place on a Saturday in March in honor of deceased children
DOCTORS
CoSPa dom: home medical-nursing consultations
GGPSP : Groupe Genevois de médecins Pratiquant les Soins Palliatifs
Telephone on-call and home care
Palli-GeMed: Palliative emergencies
OSAD (1):
Nursing care and caregivers
- Interventions 7 days/week, 24 hours/day without additional costs
GIIGE, Geneva Independent Nurses Group
Presti-Services
OSAD (2):
Nursing care and caregivers
- Interventions 7 days/week day and evening, night care at patient’s expense
OSAD (3):
Nursing care and caregivers
- Interventions 7 days/week day and evening, no night care
OTHER THERAPISTS:
DIETITIANS/
NUTRITIONISTS
Within IMAD, SITEX, PROXIMOS structures or ADIGE Geneva Dietitians Association:
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
Within IMAD, SITEX structures or
Geneva Section of the Swiss Association of Occupational Therapists
PHYSIOTHERAPISTS
Physioswiss Geneva, cantonal association
PHARMACIES:
OTHER STRUCTURES:
LIGUE PULMONAIRE GENEVOISE
PASSO
HUG pediatric support team for supportive and comfort care
In Nursing Homes
The following professionals can intervene in nursing homes.
Brochure ‘Accompanying to the End of Life – Palliative Care in Nursing Homes’.
Brochure-Palliative-Care-Accompanying-to-the-end-of-life.pdf
Groupe genevois de médecins pratiquant les soins palliatifs
The doctors from the Geneva group of physicians practicing palliative care intervene at home, with the agreement of the attending physician, at the request of patients, families or professionals (family doctors, specialists)
Attending physician or nursing home physician
The attending physician is the first person to contact in case of need for palliative care. Palliative care specialists remain available for second-line support
COSPA HOME PALLIATIVE CARE CONSULTATIONS
At the Hospital
Spread across 2 HUG sites, at Bellerive Hospital and Joli-Mont Clinic, the bed units of the HUG palliative medicine service offer any person whose state of health requires specialized palliative care the possibility of living with the illness with respect and dignity. This service helps patients and their loved ones, regardless of the illness, to preserve their quality of life.
In addition, mobile units of consultants specialized in palliative care (CoSPa) are deployed across all HUG sites upon request.
PASSO
HUG pediatric support team for supportive and comfort care
https://enfants-ados.hug.ch/soins-support-confort
Joli-Mont Clinic
The Joli-Mont Clinic includes 1 unit of 8 beds from the palliative medicine service
Avenue Trembley 45
Case postale 62
1211 Geneva 19
Bellerive Hospital
Bellerive Hospital has 28 beds in 2 units of the palliative medicine service
https://www.hug.ch/hopital-bellerive
Chemin de la Savonnière 11
1245 Collonge Bellerive
Other Establishments
La Maison de Tara
It offers an alternative to hospitalization for people at the end of life
10 chemin du Villaret
1224 Chêne-Bougeries
Home Oxygen
Various companies provide services for oxygen therapy and respiratory support therapy.
Sitex: Home Hospitalization Service
Equipment and Assistive Devices
Many companies sell or rent medical equipment.
Be sure to ask your care providers which equipment is useful to order.
Crystal Transports Equipment Rental
Foyer Handicap Assistive Devices
moyensauxiliaires@foyer-handicap.ch
https://foyer-handicap.ch/entreprises-sociales-geneve/moyens-auxiliaires-geneve
Assistive devices provided by AI for people below AHV age and receiving AI pension
https://www.ahv-iv.ch/p/4.03.f
Assistive Devices Center Le Mont-sur-Lausanne VD
https://sahb.ch/fr/contact/centre-de-moyens-auxiliaires-le-mont-sur-lausanne-vd
For patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS:
ALS Association
Accompanied Transport
Various companies offer accompanied transport for sick or disabled people.
Eric Egolf – Taxi Transport for Disabled People
Fondation Foyer Handicap Transport
https://foyer-handicap.ch/entreprises-sociales-geneve/transport-des-personnes-a-mobilite-reduite/
In Neighboring France
Palliative care is based on interdisciplinarity; professionals and other participants are complementary. In this section, you will find specialized professionals according to care settings.
In France, access to palliative care is a right for all, enshrined in the law of June 9, 1999.
Everyone can thus benefit from access to palliative care whether in hospital, at home, or in medical-social establishments housing elderly people (EHPAD) or related to disability.
Several specialized structures exist in France: Mobile Palliative Care Teams (EMSP), Palliative Care Units (USP), Identified Palliative Care Beds (LISP), and networks.
However, the palliative approach should be able to be integrated by all caregivers.
In neighboring France (Haute Savoie, Pays de Gex, and Bellegarde sector), there are no USPs.
The public hospitals in the different territories of Haute-Savoie (Annecy Genevois Hospital Center for Annecy and St Julien, Hôpitaux du Léman for Thonon, Alpes Léman Hospital Center for Annemasse-Bonneville, and Pays du Mont Blanc Hospitals for Sallanches-Chamonix) have EMSPs that advise and support the palliative approach.
They have intra-hospital activities and sometimes extra-hospital activities (home and medical-social establishments).
The Faucigny and Oncoleman networks have been in the process of merging since January 2016 with the 3 Lacs and Montagne diabetes network to create the ACCCESS support network: they work in collaboration to coordinate complex home care for fragile patients to promote home maintenance.
You can reach them at the single number: 04 80 95 50 55
In each hospital territory, there is a public Home Hospitalization linked to the hospital.
In the Annecy sector, there is a private structure, HAD Haute Savoie Sud.
In clinics, local hospitals, and rehabilitation centers, there are often palliative care referents and palliative care reception modalities (LISP or other).
Among these, certain structures, such as the Praz Coutant Medical Center, the “La Marteraye” Follow-up and Care Center, the MGEN center in Evian, “La Tour” hospital, and the Savoie Nord private hospital, have organized care oriented towards palliative care in certain sectors.
You can contact the EMSPs for any additional information:
CHANGE Annecy:
04 50 63 66 43
soins.palliatifs.secr@ch-annecygenevois.fr
CHAL Annemasse-Bonneville:
04 50 82 30 73
Sallanches-Chamonix Hospital Center and VSHA (Praz Coutant):
0450473100
soins_EMSP@ch-sallanches-chamonix.fr
CHANGE Saint Julien:
04 50 49 67 61
HDL Thonon:
04 50 83 24 55
s-coguen@ch-hopitauxduleman.fr
It should be noted that assisted suicide does not exist in France and that euthanasia is prohibited.
However, the Leonetti laws of 2005 and Leonetti Claeys of 2016 allow for the discontinuation of treatments that artificially maintain life, and the implementation of deep and terminal sedation under specific conditions.
These laws have reaffirmed the right and necessity for all citizens to have access to palliative care and support, regardless of the choice to initiate, continue, limit or discontinue any treatment.
You can find more information about palliative care in France on the SFAP (French Society for Palliative Care and Support) website: SFAP