Abstract
Every year 3,500 children die in Germany from severe diseases. Since 1998 pediatric hospices and home hospice services, specialized palliative home care teams and one inpatient unit for pediatric palliative care have been established. In close collaboration with pediatricians in private practice and children’s hospitals, the multi-professional teams take care of the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the children and their families. For symptom control, non-pharmacologic and drug-based interventions are employed synergistically. The aim of pediatric palliative care is to ease the suffering and to improve the quality of life of the child and its social environment. The burden and benefit of every examination and treatment must be thoroughly weighed with respect to the individual therapeutic goal.
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