CARES
Every year, around 500,000 people in Germany are diagnosed with cancer. About 35 percent of all cancers occur in working age. Many of those affected perceive a need for further support regarding their professional reintegration after completing their rehabilitation. This need for support remains even months after completion of rehabilitation. Cancer counselling centres can play a key role in supporting people to return to or remain in employment. The aim of „CARES: Cancer rehabilitation support by cancer counselling centres“ is therefore to develop and investigate the feasibility of intensified support for the return to employment or the retention in employment of patients with a questionable reintegration prognosis by career guides in cancer counselling centres.
Involved Institutions
University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Medical
Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science
Forschungsstelle für Gesundheitskommunikation und Versorgungsforschung, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie; Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie (CIO) Köln Bonn, Universitätsklinikum Bonn AöR
German Cancer Society (DKG)
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft für ambulante psychosoziale Krebsberatung e. V. (BAK)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Soziale Arbeit im Gesundheitswesen (DVSG)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Soziale Arbeit in der Onkologie der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft (ASO)
Leben nach Krebs! e. V.
Funding
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Federal Pension Insurance)
Duration
October 2021 – December 2024
Publications
see publications
Contact
Dr. rer. medic. Clara Breidenbach
PD Dr. rer. medic. Christoph Kowalski
