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Palliative care
Palliative care means relief, dignity, and orientation — at home and in hospital. This collection gathers articles on medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and care structures.
32 articles
Helping to kill or allowing dying?
Helping to kill or allowing dying? By Dr. Thomas Sitte Dr. Thomas Sitte begins with the death of Franz Kafka and the pain-relieving injection that likely hastened respiratory arrest. The example raise
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Overtreatment at the end of life - now the hospice movement is needed
Overtreatment at the end of life - now the hospice movement is needed Matthias Thöns tells the case of Klaus, an 86-year-old former conductor with heart rhythm problems, depression, severe strokes, de
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Acupressure to support palliative care
Acupressure to support palliative care Dorothee Wellens-Mücher presents acupressure as a complementary method for situations in which symptoms in palliative care remain difficult to regulate despite m
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When does palliative medicine begin?
When does palliative medicine begin? Antje May writes from the experience of her daughter Mascha, who suffered severe traumatic brain injury as a pedestrian at age seventeen and fell into a so-called
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Vorwort
Dear readers, Engaging with the subjects of death and dying requires courage. Far too often in our present-day society, shaped by speed and pressure to perform, we push aside the fact that our time is
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Competent partners at the doctor's side
Competent partners at the doctor's side Pharmacists do not usually come off very well in the media. Sweeping stereotypes of the pharmacist as a drawer-puller with high pharmacy prices, or the image of
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Statement of a palliative physician
Statement of a palliative physician The palliative medical care of seriously ill and dying people is a great challenge for society, but also for each one of us. Not everything that is medically possib
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Giving problems a different weight
Giving problems a different weight Spring is late on this Schwabing afternoon. Grey hangs over our heads, dull cigarette smoke is scattered across the asphalt as proof that the invitation of the café
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Spiritual care and communication
Spiritual care and communication A chaplain speaks with a young man who will die in the near future. The topics change: Why all this? What will become of my children? Why does my wife not want to talk
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Cranio-sacral grief work
Cranio-sacral grief work Cranio-sacral grief work is a form of bodywork that originally emerged from cranio-sacral therapy. CST developed out of osteopathy and is sometimes called the little sister of
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The German Society for Palliative Medicine
The German Society for Palliative Medicine The German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP) is a scientific professional society with more than 5,300 members. In the spirit of palliative care, it brin
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Palliative Care und Politik
Yvonne Dauer speaks with Bundestag member Emmi Zeulner about hospice and palliative care policy. Zeulner describes how personal family experiences and her work during her studies on a palliative care
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Palliative approaches in cardiology
Palliative approaches in cardiology A case-based self-critique By Dr. Hendrik Bachmann Mr. R. first met his cardiologist about ten years earlier during an acute anterior-wall myocardial infarction. Th
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Sterbefasten
Sterbefasten Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking By Dr. Roland Martin Hanke The article refers to Bodewijn Chabot’s book Ausweg am Lebensende , which describes FVNF as a conscious way to end lif
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Dying at home…
Dying at home… Death and I By Juliane Uhl Friends often react with shock when she says someone died in their house. Her answer is simple: they did it because they could. Five years earlier, the family
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