For patients & family members
Wishing to remain at home with an incurable, advanced disease with limited life expectancy?
The specialised outpatient palliative care team (SAPV) offers special care in cooperation with general practitioners and specialists, nursing services and nursing homes in order to fulfill the wish for care at home until the end.
We accompany …
medically/nursing through symptom-relieving therapies. Organizationally by creating, expanding and coordinating a care network. Humanly through supportive conversations with you as a patient and with related people. Your fears, wishes and needs are the focus of our care. You are not left alone in this exceptional situation.
SAPV is a supplement to general practitioner care or the nursing service.
Our services in
Specialized palliative care
for patients and relatives
- Remain in familiar surroundings at home or in your nursing home.
- Support for your individual wishes and needs
- Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for patients and their relatives. Our home visits begin after consultation with you.
- Doctors from various disciplines Specialties with additional qualification in palliative medicine. Nursing staff with additional qualification in palliative care.
- Treatment of severe symptoms such as pain, anxiety, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, delirium, etc.
- Drawing up crisis plans and palliative treatment plans (also for emergency doctors to avoid unwanted life-prolonging measures or unwanted hospital admissions), port care, outpatient ascites puncture in a palliative context, wound care, use of pain pumps or medication pumps.
- • Multi-professional cooperation with a GP and specialist care, clinics, palliative care units, hospice facilities, nursing facilities, care services, social work, pastoral care, grief counselling, psychologists, physiotherapy and many other therapy services
- Organisation and coordination of all palliative care.
- Advice on the preparation of living wills and health care proxies (forms available for download in our forms section).
- Social legal support, such as applying for a degree of care, a disability certificate or applying for a pension.
- Psychosocial support for patients and their relatives.
- Memorial ceremony
Who is entitled to
Specialized outpatient
Palliative care?
Since 2007, both those with statutory and private health insurance have been entitled to SAPV if they suffer from an incurable, advanced illness with a limited life expectancy and require particularly complex care.
We advise those with private health insurance to discuss the assumption of costs with their insurance company in advance.
How to access SAPV services
Specialized outpatient palliative care must be prescribed by your doctor or the clinic. The document “Sample 63” is required for this. You can use the sample 63 and the accompanying completion aid here.