[Palliative care--objectives and accomplishments of the Association for the Development of Palliative Care]

Associations involved in Palliative Cares want to develop a better use of therapeutic resources and a better support of patients threatened in their Lives. They want to help developing of adjusted structures to a better global tacking charge of patient and his family in hospital and at home. The Association for development of Palliative Cares (ASP) founded 1984 has chosen from the beginning the concept of continuous care and has set since 1986 the first coordinated team of voluntary "Support", selected and trained, in a curative care unit cancer patients with fatal prognostic, after a possible remission. They participated, the ASP also, to the architectural conception and the financing of the first unit of palliative cares in France. The ASP conceived a help to home support for patients in the end of their life, by a team reinforced by a referent nurse, in collaboration with a home hospitalisation unit and a pain consulting. The ASP is now taking action in Paris and its area, with its 180 volunteers and 12 teams in 11 Hospitals and one at home.