Katherine Pettus

Advocacy Officer for Human Rights and Palliative Care International Association Hospice and Palliative Care (AHPC) (USA)

The concept of dignity is at the core of human rights. Palliative care teams, whether secular or faith based, support the dignity of older persons facing life-limiting illnesses until natural death by bringing light into the darkness of serious illness. By providing impeccable clinical, psycho-social, emotional, and spiritual care, they express God's cherishing of the most vulnerable among us.  The Workshop and the Charter will produce an ecumenical and rights based instrument that can be used for palliative care advocacy in multiple contexts, particularly to offset the global movement in support of legalised aid in dying and euthanasia.

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SIGN THE CHARTER AND JOIN US IN SUPPORTING PALLIATIVE CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE

Every older person with chronic or incurable illness has the right to receive Palliative Care.

The goal of Palliative Care is to take care of the person in totality even when there is no longer a cure. This care foresees a team of different and diverse professional figures: doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social and religious assistants helping patients and their families.

Palliative Care is not a palliative.

Together we have the opportunity to spread the meaning and the profound value of Palliative Care and sensitize every country so that it may become an integral part of every national healthcare system.