Palliativmedizin in der Geriatrie Geriatric Palliative Medicine

摘要

While geriatric medicine focuses on elderly patients resources for leading them back into everyday life, palliative care concentrates on the control of symptoms during patients' terminal and dying phase.Palliative geriatric medicine is the challenging intersection area between the two fields by using the elderly patient's resources and initiating early palliative care with respect to individual needs and desires regarding end of life. To overcome this challenge constant communication is needed between medical staff, patients and relatives.The leading aim of palliative geriatric medicine is to recognize when a patient's exhaustion of resources demands a switch from geriatric to palliative care.