Initiatives, meetings, and dialogues
“Identifying the principles and values of Law 219 of 22.12.2017: DAT, sedation, planning, and medically assisted suicide”
May 19, 2025
Headquarters of the Italian Lenitherapy Foundation (FILE), Via Aretina, 155/1, 50136 Florence FI
Part of the continuing education program for volunteers, the event aims to explore the fundamental principles and the ethical and legal values underlying Law 219/2017, which regulates informed consent and advance healthcare directives (DAT). Crucial topics will be explored, such as deep palliative sedation, shared care planning, and the current debate on medically assisted suicide. The meeting aims to offer an interdisciplinary reflection, involving medical, ethical, and legal aspects to promote greater awareness of the topic.
“Reflections on the Regional Law regarding Medically Assisted Suicide (SMA)”
May 21, 2025, from 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Online
A panel discussion open to the public intended as an opportunity for discussion and in-depth exploration of the end-of-life topic, with special focus on regional legislation governing medically assisted suicide. Through contributions from experts, healthcare professionals, legal scholars, and academics, the main ethical, legal, and clinical aspects related to the law will be analyzed, aiming to provide tools for understanding and food for thought.
Link to download the poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZ1kuMTBXZdeLElY7aqjNqABY6QNaUG6/view?usp=sharing
DAT Helpdesk – What a living will is, how to draft it, where to store it
May 23, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Headquarters of the Italian Lenitherapy Foundation (FILE), Via Aretina, 155/1, 50136 Florence FI
Free advisory service provided by a multidisciplinary team composed of Mariella Orsi, a sociologist specializing in bioethics, and Massimo Piazza, a palliative care physician.
Link to webpage: https://www.leniterapia.it/event/incontri-sul-testamento-biologico/
“Tools for protecting the patient and their right to self-determination”
May 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Aula Magna Nic 3 Careggi, Largo G. Alessandro Brambilla 3, Florence (FI)
An informational and discussion meeting dedicated to patient rights, in particular the right to self-determination in healthcare choices, even in the presence of terminal degenerative diseases. Specifically, the practical ways to express this right will be illustrated, clarifying the difference between Shared Care Planning (PCC) and Advance Healthcare Directives (DAT), as well as touching upon the topic of Palliative Care.
Link to download the program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bYa20qCAEhJMyUDCOX1X7ostrpmTec6y/view?usp=drive_link
Click here to read a summary of the day: Patient protection and right to self-determination
“The care trajectory of the person with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”
June 13, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Aula Magna Nic 3 Careggi, Largo G. Alessandro Brambilla 3, Florence (FI)
The event will bring together doctors, specialists, and healthcare workers to examine the ALS care pathway in depth, from diagnostic suspicion to palliative care, with a multidisciplinary and person-centered approach. Presentations, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with the audience are scheduled.
Link to download the program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a48TG39fgYkjq4O7UMrGtXMDYZGOPNI7/view?usp=sharing
Click here to read a summary of the day: The care trajectory of the person with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
“The responsibility to choose, for oneself and for others. Advance Healthcare Directives, Shared Care Planning, Informed Consent: knowing the tools to increase self-determination.”
June 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Villa San Leonardo al Palco, Prato
Through expert presentations, the event aims to promote self-determination in healthcare by presenting useful tools for this purpose, such as advance healthcare directives, shared care planning, and informed consent. The meeting will address the topic by exploring its ethical, spiritual, and practical aspects.
Link to download the program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tIlwZpUE0O72VQINxH720dF8Ibw_n0B3/view?usp=sharing
Click here to read a summary of the day: The responsibility to choose, for oneself and for others
“The limit from a medical point of view”
September 22, 2025
Headquarters of the Italian Lenitherapy Foundation (FILE), Via Aretina, 155/1, 50136 Florence FI
Part of the continuing education program for volunteers, the event proposes a reflection on the concept of "limit" in medical practice, understood both as the boundary of care and as an ethical and human dimension of the doctor-patient relationship.
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