[Care of terminally ill patients and palliative sedation].

Caring of very sick and dying people at home during their last phase in life presents a maximum challenge for patients, their family, relatives and the palliative care team. Dying stages occur differently in each patient and the palliative care team must react accordingly. Despite all monitoring and sufficient treatment for the patient, symptoms can create a highly stressful situation.

[Outpatient palliative care – a multiprofessional challenge].

Life-threatening illness and the dying of a person presents a complex and particularly burdensome challenge for the person affected as well as for their relatives. This also applies to the professionals involved in caring and supporting the terminally ill patient. For this reason, palliative care has become a pioneer of a networked multi-professional and multi-perspective thinking and acting.