The Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie encourages researchers in the field to make their publications available to the scientific community via the HAL open archive.
Discover the winners of the call for expressions of interest launched by the Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie (National Platform for End-of-Life Research) to fund interdisciplinary research projects.
The 2021-2024 national plan was made public on January 27, 2022 by the Ministry of Solidarity and Health. The Platform's role in the development of end-of-life research is clearly included.
On October 19, 2021, the National Platform for End-of-Life Research organized a virtual meeting of young researchers working on issues relating to death, dying and palliative care.
The contents of the international francophone scientific day co-organized on November 4 by the Réseau québécois de recherche en soins palliatifs et de fin de vie (RQSPAL) are available online.
The Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie has collaborated with the Société française de santé publique to produce a thematic dossier devoted to the end of life in its journal Santé publique.
How do today's contemplative communities deal with the end of life and death of their members? Two sociologists carried out an ethnographic study in several monasteries.
Valéria Milewski is a pioneer of hospital biography. She invites seriously ill patients to write about themselves in a book that they leave to their loved ones. As research has shown, this approach helps them to come to terms with the end of their lives.
The internet portal launched by SFAP at the beginning of February provides parents and educators with resources to help them talk to children and teenagers about end-of-life issues, death and bereavement. Numerous researchers have contributed to the development of these resources.
Demographers from INED are currently surveying doctors to establish an overview of the circumstances surrounding the end of life in the French overseas departments.
To complete his training as a researcher, Guillaume Economos spent a year at the Cicely Saunder's Institute at King's College, London. Drawing on this experience, this young doctor is now seeking to use the strengths of the English model to develop palliative care research in France.
On October 7, seven young researchers working on end-of-life and palliative care issues presented their work at an online seminar organized by the Platform.
