Jusqu’a La Mort, Accompagner La Vie

Abstract

The French movement, “Jusqu’à la mort, Accompagner là vie” (Right up to death, Accompanying life), lies directly in line with that of the Hospice Movement. It has a particularity however in that many of the people instrumental in creating the movement have never seen a hospice as such. They have heard about them, read about them, even transmitted their teaching, but it is almost impossible to open beds in France and our first palliative care ward (Dr Abiven, Centre Hospitalier de la Cité Universitaire, Paris) is only a few months old.