Renzo Pegoraro

Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican City)

Religions can have an important role to promote Palliative Care for older people in the communities, with the political institutions and governments and in the media. Religions can have also a fundamental role to preserve dignity and personal value for older people, till the end of their life, and to ensure that they have respected their beliefs and preferences. The Charter can have an important role to reach these aims and to promote the awareness and dissemination of Palliative Care for older people, everywhere in the world.

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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.