A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided, including previously unidentified statistics and standardized profiles of sixteen European countries. The analysis contains demographics, the history of hospice and palliative care, the number of current services, funding, education, and training of professional staff and the role of volunteers, with an in-depth case portrayal of particular services.
Reimer Gronemeyer is professor of sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen (Germany). Michaela Fink, a sociologist, is working...
A comprehensive analysis of today's situation of palliative care in Europe is provided, including previously unidentified statistics and standardiz...
We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being taken care of. There is no question that we need alternatives to the established procedures. What can we do to create spaces where we can stay in life, rather than just staying alive? How can we turn the individual environments of people with and without dementia into places of human warmth? In Germany, initiatives attempting to answer these questions are on the rise. Committed individuals from politics, art, churches, and social and volunteer work are creatively...
We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being taken care of. There i...
