The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin (DGP), the German Association for Palliative Medicine, founded in 1994, works across disciplines with a variety of professionals: 55 percent of the 6.000 DGP-members are physicians, almost 30 percent are involved in care services and a further 15 percent work in other professions (amongst others psychology, spiritual welfare, social work, physiotherapy, pharmacology and law).
The agenda of this scientific association is to promote the interdisciplinary development of palliative medicine/palliative care in a wide range of areas. The academic discipline of palliative medicine aims to further develop the comprehensive care of seriously ill and dying people, their family and their friends.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin:
Focussing on patients and families
Project of the DGP (1):
Charta zur Betreuung schwerstkranker und sterbender Menschen in Deutschland
Charter for the Care of the critically Ill and the Dying in Germany (2013)
Project of the DGP (2):
S 3-Leitlinie Palliativmedizin für Menschen mit einer nicht heilbaren Krebserkrankung
Evidenced-based Guideline: Palliative Care for patients with incurable cancer (2015)
Project of the DGP (3):
Wegweiser Hospiz- und Palliativversorgung Deutschland:
Who provides what in the field of hospice and palliative care? (2018)
Sébastien Moine, Anne Letsch
#EAPC 2019 BERLIN, 19.12.2018:
A countdown to #EAPC2019 –
16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care
Lukas Radbruch
# EAPC 2019 BERLIN, 01.02.2019:
Happy Birthday to us!
German Association for Palliative Medicine celebrates 25 years
H.C. Müller-Busch
# EAPC 2019 BERLIN, 11.02.2019:
Milestones: Fifty years of hospice and palliative care in Germany