Advance Care Planning
Ausgabe: 3/2018
64. Jahrgang
Patientenvorsorge und Advance Care Planning im Rahmen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung
The German Act on Hospice and Palliative Care of 2015 allows patients living in a nursing home to individually plan for the end of life. By this, the concept of Advance Care Planning has been introduced into the German health care system. This article describes the instruments provided for by German legislation and developed in legal practice by which a patient may plan for the end of her or his life. It then analyses the planning process within the statutory health insurance system based on the new section 132g of Book V of the Code on Social Law, and asks if and where, it has been successful and where it has not.
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