GIP Autonomie des personnes âgées et mesures de protection juridique. What place in the medical field for the wishes of legally protected elderly people?

Transdisciplinary reflection on the place that can be given to the will of the adult placed under Judicial Protection (guardianship, curatorship, etc.

More than ten years after the adoption of the March 5, 2007 law on the protection of adults, there is almost unanimous agreement that the autonomy and will of protected adults is not always guaranteed to the extent of the ambition set by the legislator. This is particularly true in the field of personal protection, and especially where medical decisions are concerned. At the end of life, how should and how can the protected person's requests and declarations, his or her possibly divergent previous advance directives, the assessment of the proxy and the doctor's decision be articulated? The question is an ethical one, but it also calls for an inventory of actual practices. By empowering the government to harmonize the various bodies of law (Civil Code, Public Health Code and Social Action and Family Code), the programming law of March 23, 2019 holds out the promise of reform. Our project aims to provide legal elements based on 1/ a field survey (interviews with protected adults, questionnaires sent to doctors, representatives and magistrates) and 2/ a transdisciplinary analysis (law, sociology, philosophy).