Palliativ & Assistierter Suizid - Ein Widerspruch zur Hospizidee? | Uniklinik Köln

#Suicide #HospiceIdea #PalliativeMedicine The Center for Palliative Medicine at the University Hospital of Cologne (see also https://palliativzentrum.uk-koeln.de) reports on the expert discussion held on March 15, 2021, on the topic of "Assisted Suicide – A Contradiction to the Hospice Ideal?" At the beginning of 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court abolished Section 217 of the German Criminal Code, which had criminalized the commercial promotion of suicide. Prof. Dr. Raymond Voltz discusses this with Gerda Graf and Dr. Birgit Weihrauch, addressing, among other things, the following questions: • To what extent does assisted suicide contradict the hospice ideal? • How should we, as palliative and hospice care facilities, respond now? • Can the German Hospice and Palliative Care Association's (DHPV) new discussion paper on a possible new regulation of assisted suicide help us in formulating our position? PDF links: https://www.dhpv.de/files/public/stel... https://www.dgpalliativmedizin.de/ima... The Center for Palliative Medicine at the University Hospital of Cologne offers comprehensive, cross-sectoral palliative care and hospice support for patients, in addition to teaching and research: • Inpatient care on a 15-bed palliative care ward, • Home care through the Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care Team (SAPV), • Consultative care through the Palliative Care Medical Service (PMD), • Outpatient care in the University Hospital's outpatient clinics through the Medical Care Center (MVZ), • Care coordination through cross-sectoral case management, • Outpatient hospice service University Hospital of Cologne: Cutting-edge medicine. Day after day. Hand in hand. Contact: University Hospital of Cologne Kerpener Str. 62 50937 Cologne Phone +49 221 478-0 Fax +49 221 478-4095 Website: https://palliativzentrum.uk-koeln.de/