End of life in all its forms
Colloquium organized by the Psychologie & Vieillissement association, featuring several members of the Platform network.
Program
Thursday, November 13
- Roundtable:The experience of the citizens' convention
Philippe ALAIN, Henry COUTURIER, members of the citizens' convention, Michèle LEVY-SOUSSAN, researcher-observer of the citizen convention - Physician AP-HP, @ Hôtel-Dieu accompagnement - soins palliatifs, RéciThérapie - Quebec's end-of-life legislation, an implementation experience
Lucie BLAIN, nurse manager, Quebec - Chosen death, state of the art and reality in the field
François DAMAS, former Clinical Professor, intensivist at the CHU of Liège, Member of the commission for the control and dʼévaluation of the law on lʼeuthanasie in Belgium - Living with the unbearable thought of one's own death
Catherine CALECA, psychologist, psychoanalyst, Paris - Hastening death, reflections on the end of life and suicide among the elderly
Frédéric BALARD, sociologist, anthropologist, Laboratoire TETRAS, Université de Lorraine - Round table: Experiences of end-of-life support for the elderly
Jean-Jacques MAUDET, volunteer and Clémence JOLY, Head of the Pont-Audemer palliative care service, Être-là, Marie-Bénédicte JOUSSET, Anne FROIDEVEAU, Jalmalv Calvados, Dominique RIBAULT, Aspec
Friday, November 14
- Suicide prevention, aid in dying, how to reconcile approaches?
Françoise CHASTANG, psychiatrist, hospital practitioner, CHU Caen-Normandie - Member of the Collectif Ethique Démocratie Solidarités (CDES) - What place for psychological suffering?
Soumia BENBRIKA, hospital practitioner at Caen University Hospital, psychiatry of the elderly, Member of the French Society of Psychogeriatry of the Elderly (SF3PA), affiliated with research unit UMRS 1237 - Physiopathology and imaging of neurological disorders (PHIND), Caen
Elderly psychiatry: when should you stop? - The expression of the death wish in the elderly
Pauline LAUNAY, sociologist, Cerrev (Université de Caen) / EREN (CHU de Caen) - Death requests and caregiver training
Cyrille LE JAMTEL, doctor in clinical psychology, in private practice and in EHPAD, Trainer,Torigny-les-Villes - Multidisciplinary deliberation in geriatrics
Jean-Marie GOMAS, geriatrician, algologist and palliative care physician, co-founder of SFAP, Paris - Regards croisés sur l'accompagnement de fin de vie à domicile
Juliette DUCOURET, coordinator, Christelle LANGLET and Delphine MARIE, ASG, Plateforme L'instant répit, Villers-Bocage - Ethics and law at the end of life
Gilles RAOUL-CORNEIL, Professor of Private Law at the University of Caen, Member of the French National Consultative Ethics Committee
Conference
Thursday, November 13 and Friday, November 14, 2025
En ligne et au Mémorial de Caen
Esplanade Général Eisenhower
14050 Caen