The outpatient
Palliative team
in Freising

“The self-determination of patients is the top priority in our work”

Everyone has their own view of life, individual needs and wishes, but also their own fears. Respecting this – regardless of gender and orientation, ideology, religion, age, nationality, social status, handicap – and responding to it as well as possible as a caring SAPV team means preserving the autonomy of seriously ill and dying people. Patient self-determination is the top priority in our work. With careful respect for individual life, we want to make it possible for people to die with dignity.

It is important to us that every patient receives holistic support in the last phase of life – physically, mentally, spiritually and socially. We can alleviate physical suffering and pain. We address the fears of patients and their loved ones in different ways in order to make the inevitable dying process as bearable as possible. There is space and time for “what was there”, for “what is coming”, and there is time and space for your loved ones. It is important to us to involve relatives and loved ones in our psychosocial support. We create a safety net so that no one is left alone with their fears and needs. We explain what the last phase of life entails so that it is easier to accept dying as part of life.

Dying, death and mourning are part of life – this is an important guiding principle of the “Charter for the Care of the Seriously Ill and Dying in Germany”. We would like to contribute to anchoring this sentence in social awareness.