About 872,000 people live in Berlin who did not originally come from Germany. The results of current studies show that people with migration backgrounds, in comparison to German people, take advantage much less often of palliative offerings. In March 2013 we started the project “At the End of Life Far from Home” towards culturally sensitive end-of-life care.
We want to make the offerings of hospice services available to all people and attract people from other cultures for the voluntary support of critically ill and dying people.
We offer training courses for caregivers on the subject of culturally sensitive care. Over the past few years we have provided support for more people with migration backgrounds, and volunteers have come to us who speak Turkish, Polish, Arabic, Hungarian, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, English and Romanian as their mother tongue.