The seriously ill relative - support options for families, relatives and friends of the seriously ill. What is possible today?

When people are seriously ill, when healing is no longer possible, palliative care tries to give them the best possible quality of life. Therapy focuses on alleviating somatic complaints and identifying and meeting psychological, social and spiritual needs. Palliative care means accepting dying as a normal process, but also, contrary to what is often assumed, affirming life to the end.

In her lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens' Campus, physician Dr. Ina Gillmeister points out that it is not only the patients themselves who are hit hard by the serious diagnosis: The lives of the people around them also often change seriously and they have to completely reorganize themselves. Relatives and even friends are suddenly confronted with psychological, legal, benefits-related and institutional difficulties that rob them of time and energy. But they, too, can get help. Dr. Ina Gillmeister describes concisely and clearly the many support options and the structures that medicine and benefit law have in store for patients and relatives today.

Contact

Dr. Uwe Geishendorf

Central Institute for Education
+49 3677 69-4675
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de