["The care programme should be a clearly explained proposal to which the patient freely consents"].

Claude Finkelstein, president of the Fédération nationale des associations d'usagers en psychiatrie, has drawn up an inventory of care programmes, nine years after their establishment. In particular, she highlights the experience of patients and their familes regarding this system. The pitfalls concern the systematic search for the healthcare proxy and some application methods in the follow-up. Prospects for improvement should be discussed to give value to the interest of such programmes for the subjects.