Implementation of Advance Care Planning in a Regional Network
Abstract. Since 2017, the ACP concept, known in Germany as Health Care Planning for the Final Phase of Life (GVP) has offered residents of inpatient facilities ...
«State of the Art» on Advance Directive Consultations
Abstract. Living wills serve to preserve self-determination at the end of life. They are intended to give patients the opportunity to intervene in their own treatment ...
Abstract. Advance directives are an important instrument to support the autonomy of patients in clinical settings. However, when the will documented in an advance directive is at ...
Abstract. Transitions in places of care are often associated with a high symptom burden, a constantly growing care network and / or frequent changes between ambulatory and inpatient care. ...
Abstract. Patients with advanced disease suffer from multiple physical and psychological symptoms. These include pain, weakness, lack of energy, weight loss, breathlessness, nausea and ...
Abstract. The term overtreatment refers to situations, in which we evaluate the use of diagnostic or therapeutic measures negatively. On the one hand, these negative judgments ...
Abstract. In the course of new legal regulations, the question of how to deal with desire to die is the focus of current professional debates. From the perspective of palliative ...