With words
and actions
If you would like support or are looking for assistance at home or in a nursing home, the Elias Outpatient Hospice team is here for you.
From Monday to Friday (08.00-16.00), we can advise you at home, in a nursing home or hospital, on the phone or in a personal appointment with us. Together with you, we will determine the type and scope of the support you need and clarify which measures would provide you with relief and would be desirable.
Our services are open to all people with palliative care needs and are free of charge for you.
Our offer to you
Individual advice on outpatient palliative care issues
Close cooperation with attending physicians and involved nursing services
Checking and documenting the patient’s symptoms
Arrangement of further assistance and networking of various facilities for optimal care
Support in everyday life from qualified hospice volunteers
Support for relatives, dying and bereavement
It is important to note that we do not carry out medical and nursing activities ourselves, but will help you with the organization and planning of appropriate measures.
BETTER HELP THROUGH
SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
We are actively working on a “hospice network” for our patients and their relatives. Why? Because hardly any one service alone is able to cover all the needs that a sometimes long and difficult phase of illness and dying can entail. That’s why one of our tasks is to promote the networking and interlinking of different players and institutions in working groups, round tables and quality circles.
Our educational and public relations work aims to convince more people of the need for palliative hospice work, train volunteer hospice caregivers and recruit active supporters of our work: for the benefit of patients and in awareness of our shared responsibility for each other in life and in death.
“Be yourself! Everyone else already exists.”
SAPV
OUR HOME IS A
PRIVATE, PRECIOUS PLACE
Most of us would like to spend our last years here as self-determined and pain-free as possible. However, many people need help in order to be well cared for. As a team of specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV), we try to meet the wishes of patients and their relatives.
As a team consisting of 7 hospice nurses, 4 permanent palliative care physicians, a coordinator, a social worker, a secretary and numerous volunteer companions, we want to support seriously ill and dying people in preserving their quality of life and their individuality.
Outpatient hospice work: this means specialist knowledge, competent advice and support. But above all, a sympathetic ear and a caring word.
What we do
Individual advice on issues relating to specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV)
- Monitoring and documentation of the patient’s symptoms
- Anticipatory care, coordination and emergency planning
- Close cooperation with attending physicians and care services involved
- Support for relatives, dying and bereavement
Costs
The service is free of charge. The services of specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV) are provided by the statutory health insurance companies and Hospiz Elias.
Where we work
However, we cooperate with other SAPV teams as well as outpatient counseling services from different care areas.
Your contact person
Dina Bor
Head of Outpatient Hospice and Palliative Counseling Service and Specialized Outpatient Palliative Care at Elias Hospice
Phone: 0621 63554720
E-Mail: dina.bor@hospiz-elias.de or sapv@hospiz-elias.de
