Palliative care team Frankfurt 2012
Anchoring the care of the terminally ill in society
In 2012, the FFBT continued to support the Palliativteam Frankfurt gGmbH (non-profit organization) with financial donations. In previous years, a sustainable and reliable care structure was created in the home environment for dying people in the Frankfurt area - also with the help of the FFBT - which has eased the difficult fate of a large number of terminally ill people in the current year.
An essential part of palliative care is the psychosocial care of those affected, and as long as the cost of this part of standard care has not been clarified, these employees in the palliative teams must be financed by donations. Our donations are an important contribution to this. The gradual establishment of a children's palliative care team also began at the start of the year, with a core team of two starting to care for sick children in February.
In 2012, Palliativteam Frankfurt gGmbH also devoted particular attention to the development of modern, needs-based care concepts for palliative patients. This is because the appropriate medical care of chronically ill people is becoming increasingly important in our rapidly ageing community; the relatively new topic of “palliative care” is therefore becoming more and more important, and the healthcare system will have to take greater account of this in future. This requires well-founded concepts for palliative care at home that take ethical, professional and economic aspects into account. The participation of those affected themselves in care planning and decision-making (“advance care planning”) must also be taken into account.
In this context, Palliativteam Frankfurt gGmbH is working with various partners; for example, it is participating in a research project - initiated by the team - with the universities of applied sciences in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. Together with partners from all over Germany, the team is also planning to set up a scientific institute for “Ethics, Law and Efficiency in Medical Care at the End of Life”.