The Latin originating from the term.. ("hospitium - hostel) stands for an institution of life care hospices make it their mission to support people in the last phase of their lives and maintain the death should be perceived consciously as a part of life instead of him ever to drive out from society - that the goal of the hospice movement
in 2007. there was in Germany about 1,500 outpatient hospice services, about 170 hospices and about 80,000 people who work as volunteers in the hospice movement and support them. (Source: Study of the German hospice and palliative Association, available at
http://www.hospiz.net/stamhole/pdf/stellung_neu_39a-sgb5.pdf ).
Impressive numbers, which you can see the importance of dying with dignity to many people in this country. Every volunteer is committed to each accompanied by an adult (average duration of 3.2 months monitoring) in / degree of about 30 hours (also in detail in the aforementioned study nachlesbar).
The German Hospice and Palliative Association eV (DHPV), founded in 1992 as a nationwide association of the German hospice movement, is also the organizer of the Berlin Hospice Week, which this year for the 13th Time takes place. In the editorial it says:
"The last few weeks, days and hours of a person to accompany the mission of hospice staff and volunteer helpers inside our 27 member organizations. They are also those who, under the umbrella of hospice and palliative Association Berlin eV together a life-affirming program for you. It is joyful, open-minded, inspiring, quiet, musical, interactive, reflective and poetic - "living"
The complete program is available at:.
http://www.hospizwoche.de/index.php?id=78
more information about DHPV under
http://www.hospiz.net/index.html .
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