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.
As part of the Penser la pandémie virtual seminar organized by several laboratories at the Université de Franche-Comté, Elodie Cretin, coordinator of the COVIDEHPAD study, looks back at the extraordinary context in which this project was set up.
Maud Fontaine is conducting research into the media coverage of end-of-life issues, alongside her training as a nurse. Portrait of a young woman with an unusual career path.
Lassitude of living, requests for euthanasia, suicide... The desire to die expressed by some elderly people raises questions. The place given to them in our society is no stranger to this phenomenon, as philosopher Eric Fourneret and sociologist Frédéric Balard explain in a joint interview.
As part of their thesis, three young GPs have chosen to tackle the issue of advance directives, each from a different angle. Their investigations with patients, professionals and healthcare institutions have led to suggestions for increasing the use of this mechanism, which is still under-utilized.
The Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie and the Réseau québécois de recherche en soins palliatifs et de fin de vie (RQSPAL) have agreed to offer two mobility grants to doctoral students. Maya Corman is the French winner of their call for applications. Portrait of a young psychologist full of initiative.
Hélène Trimaille, 31, is a study and research engineer at the Clinical Investigation Center (CIC) of the University Hospital Center (CHU) in Besançon. As part of a team whose research focuses on ethical issues relating to aging and the end of life, she works in close collaboration with palliative care and geriatric medical services.
