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 provide … medical / nursing support through symptom-relieving therapies. Organizationally creating, expanding upon and/or coordinating a supply network through supportive discussions with you as a patient and your relatives. Your fears, wishes and needs are the focus of our care. You are not left alone in this difficult situation. SAPV is a supplement care provided by a general practitioner or a nursing service.

Our services in specialised palliative care
for patients and family members

  • 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 specialities with additional qualifications in palliative medicine. Nurses with additional qualifications in 'Palliative Care'.
  • Treatment of severe symptoms such as pain, anxiety, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, delirium, etc.
  • Preparation of crisis plans and palliative treatment plans (also for emergency doctors to avoid undesired life-prolonging measures or undesired hospital admissions), port care, ambulatory 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
specialised 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 disease 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

Specialised outpatient palliative care must be prescribed by your doctor or the hospital. The document “Form 63” is required for this. You can download the sample 63 and the corresponding completion guide here.

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