GIVE VOICE TO YOUR CHOICES is the Project of 4 third sector organizations, created and led by PRESENZA AMICA.
The organizations are Presenza Amica in cooperation with AVO (Association of Hospital Volunteers, section of Garbagnate Milanese), Porta Aperta, and La Lampada di Aladino.
UNITED FOR A SINGLE GOAL
We share with all citizens GIVE VOICE TO YOUR CHOICES with a common goal. Contribute to the application of Law 219/2017, in force for three years, on Informed Consent and Advance Treatment Directives (DAT).
They thus reconfirm the centrality of the doctor-patient relationship, reiterating the right to self-determination in the healthcare sector enshrined in the Constitution.
The Project arises from comparing several associations in the Metropolitan City of Milan and Monza Brianza territories and provides the population with operational and cognitive tools.
THE TOOLS AVAILABLE
The Project, now in its first implementation phase, is based on two original operational tools: the DAT Module and the Glossary, which are now online (now available only in Italian: we are working hard to translate the documents!).
THE WORKING GROUP
The work of the working group
The engagement of the working group has led to an ideational process and a long and dynamic structured discussion. The protagonists were the numerous volunteers of the 4 organizations and the representatives of strategic areas of civil society. Disability, chronic and incurable disease, health and social-health networks, school and university, communication, and entrepreneurship are represented in the Project. VOLUNTEERS BY YOUR SIDE The second phase of the project will see the direct involvement of the Volunteers. In fact, after specific training, these will be available to citizens at “Information Points GIVE VOICE TO YOUR CHOICES” or with online video-call mode. If, during the information interview, the need for further technical or psycho-relational-affective insights emerges from citizens, the volunteers will engage professionals (e.g. medical doctors and psychologists)
A FREE CHOICE
The Project will increase citizens’ AWARENESS of the right to evaluate and decide, in a free but informed way – today with a glance at tomorrow – which diagnosis and treatment interventions they will want to receive in a hypothetical future of illness.
If they are in a situation of illness, but incapable of understanding and wanting and unable to communicate, their previously expressed wishes may be accepted and respected.
