PRESS RELEASE – September 23, 2021 Alliance VITA's Response to the 2021-2024 Palliative Care Plan Alliance VITA commends the recently announced plan in France to develop more palliative care but also calls for the utmost vigilance regarding end-of-life issues....
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Survey Shows that Advance Directives Are Becoming Better-Known
Five years after the Claeys-Leonetti Act of February 2, 2016 was enacted, the National Centre for Palliative and End of Life Care (“CNSPFV”) conducted a poll. In January 2021, the BVA Institute conducted a survey over the phone using a sample of 902 French citizens of...
Powerful Tribute To Palliative Care
Former magistrate Michèle Bernard-Requin, who died of cancer on December 14, had been in palliative care in Paris at the Sainte Perrine Hospital. In an article published in Le Point, a few days before she died, she paid tribute to the palliative care staff, referring...
[Press Release] Alliance VITA Publishes New Guide for Advance Directives
"I wish it could have ended in a different way ..." Alliance VITA has just launched the publication of its’ new Guide for Advance Directives, sometimes referred to as a living will. The law stipulates that every individual can: write his personal advance directives, a...
6th annual World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
The theme for the 6th annual World Hospice and Palliative Care Day held on October 12, 2019 is "My Care, My Right". This unified day of action to celebrate hospice and support palliative care around the world reminds us that every man, woman and child has the right to...