End-of-life care for immigrants in Germany. An epidemiological appraisal of Berlin.

Related Articles End-of-life care for immigrants in Germany. An epidemiological appraisal of Berlin. PLoS One. 2017;12(8):e0182033 Authors: Henke A, Thuss-Patience P, Behzadi A, Henke O Abstract BACKGROUND: Since the late 1950’s, a steadily increasing immigrant population in Germany is resulting in a subpopulation of aging immigrants. The German health care system needs to adjust its services-linguistically, culturally, and medically-for this subpopulation of patients. Immigrants make up over 20% of the population in Germany, yet the majority receive inadequate medical care. As many of the labor immigrants of the 1960s and 1970s are in need of hospice and palliative care (HPC),…
Origen: End-of-life care for immigrants in Germany. An epidemiological appraisal of Berlin. – PubMed