Spir ituality www.ejpc.eu.com Implementing spiritual care at the end of life: Germany In this occasional series, members of the Taskforce on Spiritual Care in Palliative Care of the European Association for Palliative Care report on recent developments in their respective countries. [...] This has affected the existing German Jewish population, The figures tripling the size of the community and In a 2011 global survey, 50% of the total challenging Jewish end-of-life care facilities. [...] Despite recent advances in palliative care generally,6 the implementation of spiritual In recent years, efforts have been made to reinforce spiritual care care at the end of life in Germany faces many training for healthcare staff, led in good part by the Professorship challenges. [...] Forty-nine per cent of spiritual the need to clarify the role of chaplains as care education is primarily bound to the providers of extensive spiritual care in end-of- Christian tradition and 57% delivered within life care settings.8 To provide spiritual care that the framework of palliative care education. [...] for reinforcing spiritual care training in A survey of participants about the efficiency of palliative care curricula, so that everyone their training indicated that, despite their working in end-of-life care is prepared to strong interest both in spirituality and in the provide spiritual healing where needed.
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