Public lecture series 2025 - Hospice culture and palliative care
Hospice culture and palliative care – an existence worth living until the end
“It's not about giving more days to life, but more life to days” - a great sentence by Cicely Saunders. The doctor and founder of the hospice movement revolutionized the way we deal with dying and death. In 1967 she opened St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, which is still the model for all modern hospices today. For her, it was about caring, holistic support for the dying, personal appreciation, respect and self-determination right up to the end.
“It's not about giving more days to life, but more life to days” - a great sentence by Cicely Saunders. The doctor and founder of the hospice movement revolutionized the way we deal with dying and death. In 1967 she opened St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, which is still the model for all modern hospices today. For her, it was about caring, holistic support for the dying, personal appreciation, respect and self-determination right up to the end.
We invite you and all interested parties: Just come to the University - in the lecture hall 03.01 (Universitätsplatz 1/Parterre, 8010 Graz)or take part in the lectures online! Participation is
free of charge.
- Students from all fields
- Interested people from the relevant institutions
- Everyone who is interested
- from the teaching staff of the University of Graz, the Medical University of Graz and other educational institutions
- from the official healthcare system
- from the practice of hospice and palliative care facilities with a scientific background
- The participants should get an overview of how the topic can be dealt with competently in an interdisciplinary manner.
- The participants should expand their competence in their own specialist knowledge.
- Lecturers with practical experience should give the participants insights into various professional fields. This gives them the opportunity to make contacts that also open up additional professional perspectives.
Lecture and discussion
MARCH 2025
5. 3. Hospizkultur in Österreich – ein Beitrag für eine sorgende Gesellschaft
Prim. Mag. Dr. Erwin Horst Pilgram
Leitung Medizinische Geriatrie und Albert Schweitzer-Hospiz,
Geriatrische Gesundheitszentren der Stadt Graz
12. 3. Zwischen Liebe, Schmerz und Missverständnissen – Konfliktmanagement und Gesprächskultur in der letzten Lebensphase
Mag. Maria Buchegger
Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologin
19. 3. Tod und Sterben in den Medien
Mag Gerhard Einsiedler
Journalist
26. 3. Was Menschen am Ende ihres Lebensweges brauchen
Mag. Sabine Janouschek
Geschäftsführerin des Hospizvereins Steiermark
APRIL 2025
2. 4. Sterbekulturen zwischen Schicksal und Machsal. Gibt oder braucht es eine neue Ars moriendi?
Mag. Dr. Johann Platzer
Institut für Moraltheologie, Universität Graz
9. 4. Steirische Hospiz- und Palliativlandschaft
Dr. Andreas Köck, MBA
Koordinator Hospiz-/Palliativbetreuung und integrierte Versorgung Steiermark
30. 4. Politische Dimensionen von Hospizarbeit und Palliative Care in der Sorgegesellschaft
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Heller, MA
Institut für Pastoraltheologie und Pastoralpsychologie, Universität Graz
MAY 2025
7. 5. Zum Leben g‘hört a End‘
GKP Angelika Kraxner
Albert Schweitzer Hospiz, Graz
14. 5. Vom Tod zum Leben
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Strasser
Institut für Rechtswissenschaftliche Grundlagen,
Fachbereich Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Graz
21. 5. Auswirkungen eines Blackouts auf die Gesundheitsversorgung sowie auf die Pflege
Hofrat Dr. Helmut Theobald Müller
Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung
28. 5. Am Lebensende. Würde.
Dr. Magdalena Demuth, MSc.
Palliativstation des Krankenhauses der Elisabethinen
JUNE 2025
4. 6. Pflanzliche Schmerzmittel – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Adelheid Brantner
Institut für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften, Universität Graz
We invite you and all interested parties: Just come to the University - in the lecture hall 03.01 (Universitätsplatz 1/Parterre, 8010 Graz) or take part in the lectures online! Participation is free of charge.
HS 03.01 Universitätsplatz 1/ GF, 8010 Graz
Wed 18.06.2025, 18:15-19:45, SR 03.01, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Universitätsplatz 1
Wed 02.07.2025, 18:15-19:45, SR 03.01, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Universitätsplatz 1
Wed 01.10.2025, 18:15-19:45, SR 03.01, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Universitätsplatz 1
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