Focus on patient & family centering

In our thematic focus area, we deal with research questions relating to the care of patients and their relatives in the last phase of life. Here, for example, we focus on the views, needs and wishes of patients and their relatives and on improving their well-being and quality of life. The focus is equally on incurable oncological and non-oncological diseases.

We work with healthcare research methods and see ourselves as a multi-professional team that integrates individual patient and family care and the social context into the research. Several of our projects result in recommendations for (psychosocial) support measures.

Current projects

• Development and evaluation of a concept for interprofessional collaboration for patients with palliative care needs (KOPAL)

• End-of-life care at a distance (LoCatE)

Completed projects

• Dy@EoL - Interaction at the end of life in dyads of parents and adult children
• Analysis of the places of death of residents in the city and region of Hanover

• ADVANTAGE - Managing Frailty. A comprehensive approach to promote a disability-free advanced Age in Europe: the ADVANTAGE initiative

• COFRAIL - Family Conferences on Frailty: Increasing patient safety through joint prioritization

• Needs and perspectives of people at the end of life and their relatives: The example of incurable lung disease

• Understanding the needs of older patients with severe heart failure